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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Indiana University has joined forces with four other institutions to monitor and report incoming threats around the clock.
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The lawsuit contends that as many as 250,000 people in the city, and millions outside of it, were never told about the data loss.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee criticized the response to Russia-linked hacking during the 2016 presidential election and warned similar threats are likely to follow.
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Facebook’s chief, Mark Zuckerberg, has yet to comment on the data harvesting scandal.
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A ransomware virus that took down Davidson County, N.C., systems a month ago has officially been removed, according to the county manager, while an FBI investigation continues.
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The three tech giants are losing their luster in Washington as revelations that the Russian government used their platforms to meddle in the 2016 election escalate.
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The security of the state’s election systems was behind a four-year funding request aimed at modernizing potentially vulnerable systems.
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Threat actors have dispatched spear-phishing emails, watering-hole domains and attacks geared toward industrial control systems.
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In a decentralized election system with more than 10,000 separate jurisdictions, the onus for security is usually put on local officials.
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While the FBI is getting swamped and prioritizing bigger cases, most local and state law enforcement agencies are not equipped to track down cyber crooks.
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The National Republican Congressional Committee called for an investigation into possible voting machine calibration issues and other alleged problems.
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The legislation aims to replace the state’s all-electronic voting equipment with machines that also produce a paper backup.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will begin probing the state’s election technology for signs of vulnerabilities in the coming months.
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A simulation during last week’s Rocky Mountain Cybersecurity Symposium showed how easily a hacker can exploit personal information found on social media to hit a larger target.
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Governments at every level are looking into moving information, tools and processes to the cloud, but public-sector officials warn against writing off data centers anytime soon.
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The legislation would exclude Equifax and other credit agencies from its requirements.
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Vague language used in many state laws defining how quickly consumers must be informed of a discovered data breach has brought on lawsuits from Pennsylvania, Los Angeles and Chicago.
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As Google's Deadline for Web Encryption Looms, Many State and Local Websites Don't Meet the StandardThe most popular Web browser wants every page on the Internet encrypted. Government is still behind.
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