Cybersecurity
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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. -
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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Government security leaders are struggling. Cyber investments are lagging. Resources are being cut. The problem is getting worse. Let’s explore solutions.
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The federal government regulates safety standards for vehicles. Should cybersecurity standards be treated differently?
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Plans are for a five-story parking garage at the current site of parking for the former Georgia Golf Hall of Fame, where the innovation center is fast-tracked for construction.
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Seventy-nine percent of those polled in a recent survey are worried about the security of their personal digital data.
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School districts across the country have become frequent targets of ransomware attacks.
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The city has figured out how the emergency system was compromised and it's working to prevent it from happening again.
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Cybercriminals are unrelenting in their attacks on state and local government computers, and the states are looking to Congress for help.
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The fraudulent transfers were made in mid-March, and the city discovered that it had fallen victim to the scam about a week and a half ago.
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Employees at the Monroe County Courthouse are among the latest victims of an apparent information highjacking.
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Many consumers have found themselves looking for a good privacy solution following Congress' recent passage of a resolution that would overturn privacy rules voted in place last year by the Federal Communications Commission.
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The bill arrives at a time when electronics searches at the country's airports and borders are becoming more common.
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Details about the new Cyber Innovation and Training Center are beginning to emerge.
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Companies like Paul Bunyan Communications, AT&T and Comcast have made public announcements pledging that their values remain unchanged in the face of the FCC ruling that now allows them to sell customer data.
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A recent report found that the typical public-sector organization uses nearly 750 cloud services -- 10 times the number IT departments expect to find.
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State IT leaders met for a vendor-sponsored cybersecurity education panel called Sacramento Security Day where they discussed ways to improve state-level cybersecurity.
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One seemingly-innocuous email led to the stealing of up to $35 million.
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If the privacy rules had been left alone, they would have gone into effect at the end of this year. But because of the way the new resolution was written, the FCC will likely be barred from writing any similar rules in the future.
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A report issued by the Digital Citizens Alliance found more than 120,000 University of Michigan e-mail addresses available in the far reaches of the Internet.
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Warnings have been issued by tech experts that it’s only a matter of time before terrorists or criminals can take down a power grid or wipe out financial records.
