Cybersecurity
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State lawmakers are ramping up data center pursuit a year after passing controversial legislation aimed at drawing data centers to West Virginia at the expense of local government control and funding. -
An ambulance billing company has agreed to pay Connecticut and Massachusetts $515,000 for a 2022 data breach that exposed private information of nearly 350,000 residents, officials said.
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The nonprofit advisory group GovRAMP reports that its Progressing Security Snapshot Program leads to steady cybersecurity improvements for cloud service providers who sell to government, ultimately boosting trust.
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Verizon’s latest worldwide report on data breaches outlines some troubling trends that have become more dangerous to our tech-centric way of life.
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While this case appears over, more are likely to emerge, increasing calls for new legislation that clarifies whether law enforcement can seek court orders to get tech companies’ assistance in unlocking phones.
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Speaking at a security forum in London, FBI Director James Comey referred to the cost of breaking into the iPhone as being more than the total he will earn in the remaining seven years of his 10-year term as the bureau’s director. Comey earns $183,000 a year.
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Allison has set his sights on building lasting relationships with state agencies and meeting the tight deadlines posed by key infrastructure initiatives.
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The new council also will encourage economic development in the cybersecurity sector.
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Despite the highly-publicized cases of Apple refusing to cooperate with law enforcement agencies, a transparency report shows that of 4,000 requests to share data, Apple obliged 80 percent of the time.
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Thomas F. Hogan, chief judge of the FISA court, ruled that the nation’s spy agencies and the FBI were following proper procedures in how they selected targets for surveillance, gathered intelligence data and later mined it.
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In February, the encryption issue reemerged after federal officials demanded that Apple help bypass the passcode on a phone belonging to one of the shooters in December’s San Bernardino attack.
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U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta asked how long localities should plan to be without power in the event of an attack, and discovered it could be up to several weeks.
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Representative Darin LaHood accused the IRS of not protecting Americans' private information citing nearly 700,000 records breached from 2014-2015.
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In early April, U.S. prosecutors penned a letter to a federal judge in Brooklyn requesting that Apple unlock an iPhone in a drug trafficking case, but the tech giant claims there is no proof that an unlocked iPhone is necessary.
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The pool of affected employees could be larger than officials know; it's possible some whose information was stolen filed their taxes before fraudsters tried to.
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The results of an annual report centered on the cyberthreat landscape show an increase in attacks across the board.
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The operation is one of the largest the FBI has conducted on the elusive dark Web, and led to the arrest of more than 135 people in 18 states on child pornography charges.
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Still trying to determine the damage done, city officials suspect that information such as Social Security numbers, names and birthdays were stolen.
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At issue is a state auditor report released last summer that revealed California’s dismal compliance with its own security standards to protect sensitive information.
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It's hard to find opponents to a job-creating program centered around national defense, education and job training.
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Schools are scrambling to provide courses that emphasize cybersecurity, an element traditional computer science tracks have not included.
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