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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The city reports it has moved on from its March ransomware attack, but it may be a harbinger of more sophisticated attacks to come.
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Guarding against the latest cyberthreats requires an aggressive training program. But can the human element ever be completely overcome?
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As bad actors evolve their strategies for attack, government too must continue to course correct.
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Malicious code, delivered via smartphone, poses a very real danger to the integrity of the state’s voting process, one expert warns.
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GovTech's overview of which states, cities and counties have a chief privacy officer.
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A new voting system could cost as much as $60 million, and some believe the state government should fully fund any new technology.
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State and local agencies around the country have been faced with this question, some absorbing massive costs as they move to rebuild what was taken by hackers.
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Its new executive director comes directly from a career spanning nearly three decades in cyberdefense and national intelligence.
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The recent ruling by a U.S. District Court judge acknowledged the vulnerabilities of voting machines in the state, but it isn’t changing the way voters will cast their ballots in Baldwin County.
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One of three men sentenced for his part in the global Mirai cyberattacks is being required to pass on his skills to law enforcement.
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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey alleged that two former UMass Memorial Medical Group and UMass Memorial Medical Center employees inappropriately accessed patient data.
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He will leave his role as Missouri's cybersecurity point man at the end of the month.
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The ruling in Curling v. Kemp found that the state’s electronic voting machines are so easily hacked that it is irresponsible to use them without a paper trail.
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Cyberthreats to utilities could result in a prolonged loss of electricity and water, evaporation of company records and breach of customer privacy, a report to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy cautioned.
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Criminals run these scams from the other side of the world, making them hard to track down and bring to justice.
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Though millions of records from the last six years were accessible through a now-fixed vulnerability, company officials say there is no evidence the data is being misused.
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While attention has focused on the potential to penetrate voting machines, a ProPublica survey found that more than one-third of counties overseeing toss-up congressional elections have email systems that could be vulnerable to hacking.
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State officials are in the process of determining whether a team of civilians could adequately respond to cybersecurity disasters.
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