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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Amid persistent shortages in cybersecurity positions, what can states do to strengthen their numbers?
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In 41 states, some counties and cities use election equipment that is more than a decade old. Older machines are more likely to malfunction or break down on Election Day, and are susceptible to wireless malware attacks.
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Research has not yet yielded a reliable prediction of a coming solar storm, but chances improve each year.
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As cities grow smarter and more connected, what implications does that have for cybersecurity?
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Officials confirmed a weekend cyberattack that impacted emergency dispatch systems as well as the city’s 311 services.
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Thirty-three states have singed onto a letter asking the embattled social media giant to answer questions surrounding the Cambridge Analytica data use scandal.
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Less than a week after a ransomware cyberattack struck the city of Atlanta, the municipality's response has circled in local, federal partners and is turning to recovery.
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The hacking has gone on since 2013, the Justice Department said.
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A variety of partners are invested in the future of the rapidly evolving Hull McKnight Cyber Center for Innovation and Training in Augusta.
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Officials are reporting that IT systems are fully operational following the February ransomware attack and that proactive partnerships are in the works.
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Some European citizens are effectively able to scrub themselves from online search engines, but the U.S. has not been so quick to legislate the same option.
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Emergency response, payroll and 311 systems remain operational following a cyberattack against the city of Atlanta March 22.
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The state’s department of technology announced this week that it had launched a comprehensive program for evaluating and testing statewide systems and cyberdefenses.
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Curiosity comes after Dallas County election officials said last year that Russian hackers unsuccessfully tried to access voter registration rolls.
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City IT staff have been working for more than a week to contain a computer virus targeting as many as 50 municipal and police department machines.
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Mark Zuckerberg and company recently pitched in more than $1 million to fight the California privacy ballot initiative.
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Oregon is the latest state to enact a consumer protection law that would require residents to be notified within a specific time if their data has been breached.
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The FBI and federal Department of Homeland Security are coordinating with the city of Atlanta to resolve a ransomware attack that impacted internal and public-facing applications and caused some online outages.
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