Cybersecurity
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The National Association of State Chief Information Officers’ list reflects pressure on states to manage cyber risk, modernize systems and implement AI responsibly — with federal partnership playing a central role. -
Following an internal audit by the city technology office, leaders said they have removed an unknown account that had gained access to confidential legal files. An IT analysis is underway.
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Attorney General Dana Nessel is renewing her call for Michigan to pass a law requiring companies to immediately report data breaches to her office, which would allow for quickly alerting the public.
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Too many of these devices come from unregulated, low-cost overseas manufacturers that can skimp on security to keep prices competitive.
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Colorado, Idaho, Maryland and Washington, D.C., are nearing the start of a roughly three-month test of digital drivers' licenses that is poised to speed up an epic shift in technology that's already underway.
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Before net neutrality, the FTC had jurisdiction over the internet ecosystem of internet providers like AT&T and content creators like Netflix, and used that authority to enforce transparency rules.
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Sen. John McCain charged that President Donald Trump’s administration missed a self-imposed deadline to deliver a cyber strategy within 90 days of taking office.
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In April, the city decided that its temporary command center needed to go undercover, and subsequently removed videos of council meetings from YouTube and records of council actions from the city website.
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As cybersecurity has evolved, the conversation has moved away from attacking threats to how to address them methodically — even tactically.
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The hackers were able to access the information through the portion of the board's online voter registration tool that requires voters to type in their driver's license number or state identification number.
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The threat from botnets is so serious that FBI Director James Comey brought them up at a Senate hearing last week, saying the “zombie armies” created from internet devices can do tremendous harm.
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Illinois was one of two states – the other being Arizona – that was the subject of cyber attacks on voter information in 2016.
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Recent reports from Verizon, Symantec agree that cyber-espionage remains a problem for public agencies, but disagree on the extent to which data breaches are a significant issue in government.
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The fundamental problem is that no one in the government is responsible for securing the internet for all of us.
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G.B. Cazes, a part-time consultant for the CSRA Alliance of Fort Gordon, projects that Augusta is about to get a huge leg up in the research industry.
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"The openness is going away, from a security perspective, for the protection of our city employees."
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It’s a very simple idea that is surprisingly secure.
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One observer of the U.S. intelligence community said the rise in targets — which hit 92,707 in 2014 and 94,368 in 2015 — might reflect an increasingly diverse gamut of adversaries rather than an intensification of surveillance.
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Cybersecurity firms increasingly are drawing attention to the rise of hacking by previously unseen nations.
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In addition to finding weaknesses in the security of Social Security numbers, the audit identified several other lapses in the state elections process and in board operations.
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It's unclear whether this was a coordinated attack on the agency.
