Cybersecurity
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Flock Safety cameras have become an increasingly utilized tool for the bigger police departments across the state, from urban areas like Aurora, Colorado Springs and Denver to suburbs like Douglas County. -
Minnesota’s case is one of several breaches of late involving legitimate access, a recurring issue in provider-heavy government health and human services systems.
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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.
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An investigation run out of the federal prosecutor’s office in Tampa, Fla, resulted in the dark Web marketplace being shut down. The site sold access to identity information and hacked servers among other things.
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More than 1,000 files in the case against against hackers supported by a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin ended up online, Special Counsel Robert Mueller told a federal judge. It is suspected that the law firm working with Mueller was intentionally targeted.
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City officials told local media they are exploring the capabilities and potential locations, hoping the new center will be more cost efficient than deploying a shared services concept.
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Porter County's new equipment will allow voters to insert a paper ballot and make their choices on the screen before the machine marks the selections.
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The company is working to fix an apparent bug in FaceTime’s group chat feature that allows users to secretly activate the microphone on another device. The feature has been temporarily disabled.
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Facebook users no longer see the site as a confidant. They're struggling with how to deal with a messy codependence — and whether to just break up and move on with healthier friends.
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An audit by Inspector General Joseph Ferguson found that the elections board was lacking in human resource practices, but perhaps more concerning were the findings that highlighted gaps in disaster and cyber preparedness.
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The would-be phishing attack Jan. 22 didn’t penetrate the Ohio city’s systems, but IT personnel have taken some services offline and are updating systems as a precaution.
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County officials are expected to select Dominion’s direct-recording electronic (DRE) system because it is familiar to voters. Board members said the choice would limit the potential for human error.
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A series of proposals in the state Legislature could bring new transparency and privacy rules for residents, but many states have been slow to embrace similar limits on how companies use and share customer data.
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Plus, state and local government agencies prepare for coming Data Privacy Day; Miami makes its new beta website official; new map visualizes Chicago’s most polluted neighborhoods; jobs in gov tech abound, and more.
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Should privacy mean different things depending which side of the Atlantic you live on?
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Election officials in the county say the new machines, which could be ready before the primaries, will incorporate digital and paper-based verification methods.
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The ransomware attack Jan. 23 forced city computers to be taken offline and prompted an emergency declaration from interim City Manager Larry Patterson. The extent of the damage is not yet known.
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The FTC is investigating whether the social-media giant failed to honor its commitments when political consulting business Cambridge Analytica gained access to information about millions of users.
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In one case, a blaring alert about a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile launch sent one Bay Area family into a panic before they realized the alert was actually coming from a hacked Nest home security camera.
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The latest data breach from Oklahoma Department of Securities is a case study in why the state should consider the adverse effects of reversing the consolidation of its IT departments.
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State and local government leaders say that for now some collaborative efforts are facing the potential of individual delays, but the effects are likely not to be noticed by most of the general public.
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