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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Idaho's Incident Response Program will be implemented statewide via WebEOC for state agencies and local governments to identify cyberthreats in a standardized and quantifiable format.
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One of the roughly $5,000 radios was given to a Varnell tow truck company by the police chief, sparking debate about how the new system is to be used and who should have access to it.
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The county will spend more than $800,000 to purchase the new voting system from Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems. Officials say the switch to centralized vote counting will cut the cost of the new system by half.
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Ransomware has crippled governments and companies around the world, encrypting data and demanding payment for the decryption key — though that's no guarantee of recovering the information.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority, a federally owned power company, got failing marks around email, encryption and website security. Officials say the corporate agency is working to correct the deficiencies.
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The city’s look at surveillance technology comes at a time when jurisdictions around the U.S. are scrutinizing their own public-safety tools. Last month, San Francisco banned the use of facial-recognition technology by all municipal agencies.
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While officials with Pennsylvania’s Ellwood City Medical Center say they do not believe patient data was compromised in a recent cyberattack, they are investigating the incident for potential data loss.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has made it a priority to collect and analyze the social media data of thousands of people, but the reasoning behind these efforts is not always straightforward.
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The Pennsylvania county is relaunching some of its computers and servers after the May 25 cyberattack. Officials believe the attack originated from an email attachment unknowingly opened by an employee.
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Big tech companies compete over who can gather the most intelligence on their users. Countries like Russia and China turn this information against their citizens.
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Minnesota’s share of the financial settlement is $30,000, according to a spokesman for state Attorney General Keith Ellison, who announced the agreement Thursday. The company involved was Medical Informatics Engineering.
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Florida-based cybersecurity and digital data forensics firm Sylint Group Inc. will work with Microsoft to perform a full assessment and provide a prognosis report on what remains infected and must be fixed.
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The “opt-in” nature of the bill, which would require Internet service providers to obtain express consent from customers to sell their personal data, would set it apart from other state Internet privacy laws.
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Officials said the websites and programs were shut down May 21 as a precaution after a virus was found on a limited number of computers, but they have not linked the shutdown to other cyberattacks.
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So far, the city’s information technology office has spent $4.6 million on recovery efforts since the ransomware struck May 7 and expects to spend an additional $5.4 million by the end of the year, officials said.
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County officials have taken the court systems offline after a virus was discovered over the weekend. The attack was limited to the courthouse servers and has not impacted other computer systems in the county.
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Technologies both mainstream and emerging promise to improve government service delivery. To reduce costs and increase efficiency, jurisdictions are working together to get what they need.
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As concerns arise of international meddling in U.S. elections, nonpartisan nonprofit Protect Democracy has created a free Web app for secretaries of state to keep an eye on their voter rolls in case of hacking or tampering.
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