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.
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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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To fight back against cyberthreats, security officials encourage people to work with government agencies and find ways to keep information offline.
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During a recent talk in Washington, D.C., Pentagon Deputy Secretary Robert Work said that the use of deep learning machines will allow for a better understanding of ISIS as a network — and how to target it precisely and lead to its defeat.
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Sen. Gary Peters is hoping that the private industry will take measures to protect driver information and build defenses to vehicle hacking rather than the federal government.
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In an ironic twist, Apple is now asking the FBI to cooperate requesting information on how the encryption was bypassed in order to better protect their phones.
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Using an unnamed third party the FBI was able to access the encrypted information ending the contentious lawsuit that sparked a national controversy.
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Many legal experts believe that Clinton faces little risk of being prosecuted for using the private email system to conduct official business when she served as Secretary of State.
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By understanding where attacks come from and some preventive steps you can take to minimize an attack, your agency will be better prepared to defend itself and your constituents.
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The move is symbolic because even though the men being charged are all in Iran, the U.S. ability to identify them sent a message to future state-sponsored hackers.
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As more personal information is collected by ever-more-powerful computers, giant sets of data have become available — not only for legitimate uses, but also abuses.
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Officials will neither confirm nor deny that forensic software company Cellebrite is helping the feds break into the iPhone used by the San Bernardino mass shooter.
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Despite objections that drivers' Social Security numbers would be shared nationally, a Senate panel approved a bill that would allow Louisiana motorists to get a license that meets federal travel and other ID rules.
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If the government drops its demands for Apple's help and unlocks the data itself, the tech company will likely remain in the dark on what prosecutors learned.
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Transit agencies have begun recording sound and video on buses in the name of safety and customer service — but critics say it represents another step in government spying on citizens.
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The new era of cybercrime requires little more than a credit card to launch an attack.
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FBI investigators say they may have found a way to access San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone information without the company's cooperation.
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Combating the Islamic State online is the least developed and most controversial part of the administration’s multi-pronged military strategy.
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The key mover on the issue has sponsored legislation for a two-year moratorium on using government drones over private property with certain public safety exemptions.
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The ACLU is bringing legal measures against the Hayward, Calif., police due to their conduct at a 2014 demonstration and subsequent editing of body cam video.
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