Cybersecurity
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Its ability to send residents emergency notifications was crippled by the November cyber attack. Since then, the local government has relied on state and federal systems to send out alerts. -
In the wake of a scam last year, the state agency has refocused on data encryption and security, and will do monthly cyber training and awareness. It has recovered nearly all of the stolen funds.
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A breach in a Minnesota Department of Human Services system allowed inappropriate access to the private data of nearly 304,000 people, with officials saying there is no evidence the data was misused.
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With the county database offline since a cyberattack in late May, the real estate and title search businesses in the county had been in limbo. Title searches are not possible without access to deed records.
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Without discussion on the merits of meeting the demand, the board tackled the agenda item in two minutes, voted and moved on. An additional $25,000 will come out of the city budget to cover the insurance policy deductible.
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The cloud-based endpoint management solution awaits final approval from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, having met its stringent security standards for cloud software.
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One business in the city has had files corrupted and encrypted in the attack, police said. Anyone who experiences a similar attack is urged to contact Greensburg police or their own local law enforcement agency.
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A recent ACLU of Massachusetts poll of residents showed that nine in 10 voters support government regulation of facial recognition technology. A state moratorium on the tech had 79 percent support.
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Roughly 1 million Ohioans have signed up for OH|ID single sign-on to access 100 government services and counting, as new state leadership brainstorms the creation of a digital wallet for residents.
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The Office of Security Management was created Tuesday through executive order. State CISO John Evans will lead the new office within the Department of Information Technology and oversee consolidation of cyberdefenses.
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Stanislaus is among numerous counties facing millions of dollars in equipment replacement costs to comply with state rules, but financial assistance is available from state and federal sources to defray the expense.
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Election officials in the state will have up to $5.1 million to gird the 2020 presidential election against cyberthreats — $2.3 million from unused federal grants and $2.8 million from the state Legislature.
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"We have not discussed the details of what's going on," said city spokeswoman Rose Anne Brown. "We feel it's expedient not to do that until we worked our way through this."
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Though the effects were less this time, voters across the globe should remain vigilant against disinformation campaigns and election system hacking.
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A forensic investigation into how the Pennsylvania county's computers were infected begins soon, but officials suspect someone connected to the network opened an attachment to a fraudulent email that contained a virus.
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Full-time Butler County Board of Elections employees and any vendors working with the newly purchased voting machines will need to pass a criminal background check, according to new rules announced last week.
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The city has been slowly getting its operations and systems back online after a cyberattack in early May, but debate over the administrative response to the attack is still causing controversy.
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A recent directive aims to strengthen the security of Ohio’s election system, potentially making it a leader nationwide for statewide efforts to guard elections from cyberthreats and bad actors.
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A Nobel Prize-winning political economist found a way to promote good governance and protect users without the need for heavy-handed government regulation.
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report indicated that a company that provides voting software in some North Carolina counties may have been compromised by Russian hackers in the 2016 presidential election.
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City council members said they were troubled to learn that the city’s information technology officials did not have a working relationship with their counterparts at the Maryland Department of Information Technology.
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