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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Washington, D.C., has named longtime contractor Suneel Cherukuri as its new chief information security officer, resolving a staffing decision that has been a need throughout most of 2018.
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A Vancouver surgery center notified more than 2,000 patients of a recent email-based cyberattack and data breach that targeted Social Security, credit card numbers and other personal information.
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SUNY Upstate University Hospital announced Nov. 9 that a former employee had inappropriately accessed more than 1,200 patient records between November 2016 and October 2017.
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Despite the Department of Homeland Security’s warnings last year about Russian cyberoperations in the 2016 presidential elections, some states seem to have lingering holes in their systems, experts say.
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New Hampshire prosecutors believe there may be recordings on the personal assistant device related to the 2017 murders of Christine Sullivan and Jenna Pellegrini.
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As technology advances, privacy and cybersecurity have become more closely linked. Privacy experts took to some of the core issues around data protection at the Washington Digital Government Summit Nov. 8.
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A new partnership using interns from Norwich University in Northfield, Vt., will move Vermont to a 24/7 cybersecurity operation, according to state Chief Information Officer John Quinn.
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Homeland Security confirms that Russia did not interfere with the midterm elections, and officials wonder if the White House's new cyber policy — which went from defense to offense — is the reason.
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In polling places across the country Tuesday, voters and elections officials addressed a host of problems that delayed voting. What they didn't see was the kind of foreign interference many feared after 2016.
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Department of Homeland Security officials at the Washington elections command post said they had detected some “run-of-the-mill” scanning of elections systems a little past noon on Election Day.
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During the presidential primaries, more than a billion “knocks on the door” were blocked by analysts at the newly formed center. Roughly three years on, the cybersecurity hub is still at it and evolving rapidly.
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70 ExpressPoll Tablets will be implemented to help secure the uploads and downloads of election information.
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An unsuccessful attempt to infiltrate voting systems during the 2016 election cycle “galvanized us into upping our game,” said Chris Wlaschin, Election Systems & Software’s vice president of systems security.
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The office was hit with ransomware in 2017 during a "data dump" from a cellphone in the course of investigating a case. But it doesn't have any records of the attack.
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The ransomware cyberattack against the Colorado Department of Transportation earlier this year was an impactful event but reinforced useful best practices.
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Hardware Trojans are, like the Greek horse used to sneak in soldiers, designed to appear harmless while in actuality they perform secret malicious operations.
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The Homeland Security panel asked for officials to appear in response to a Bloomberg Businessweek report that China’s intelligence service had slipped malicious chips into the Super Micro Computer Inc. supply chain.
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The credit monitoring service enlisted after the 2012 breach of the state’s tax agency lapsed Oct. 31, but a decision was made not to renegotiate the contract.
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