Cybersecurity
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Chief Privacy Officer Martha Wewer reviewed the state’s approach to data protection, AI oversight and consumer privacy on Thursday as Gov. Josh Stein marked a new day of awareness during Data Privacy Week. -
There was a record set for data breaches in 2025, and the incidents were also paired with fewer details in notification letters, raising concerns about transparency and public understanding.
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Following a turbulent year in cybersecurity, the state Governor’s Technology Office is seeking to hire a new cybersecurity lead to manage risk and compliance. Nevada’s permanent CISO retired in May 2025.
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Target avoids litigation in the wake of the 2013 cyberattack that exposed the names and credit card numbers of 40 million customers.
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Gov. Greg Abbott's many redactions and decisions to withhold information have transparency experts crying foul.
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Using a dating website isn't a crime, even one like Ashley Madison, but more than 15,000 military and government employees will have at least some explaining to do.
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The responsibilities of chief information security officers have had to evolve significantly in the face of the changing technology landscape, and mounting internal and external challenges.
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The National Security Agency's ability to capture Internet traffic on United States soil has been based on an extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: AT&T.
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Even the most physically secure research lab could be the site of a devastating data security breach.
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The Senate homeland security committee is seeking email facts from the tech company that managed Clinton's private email server during the time she used her personal email account to conduct official business.
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From unlocking cars and opening garages to hacking a satellite, recent breach demonstrations made a clear point about cyberattacks: They are very real and can be very dangerous. And our current method of "fighting" these attacks is not working.
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In one of the most sweeping cases yet involving securities fraud and computer crime, prosecutors and the Securities Exchange Commission unveiled what they said was a long-running scheme to profit from corporate earnings, deals and other market-moving data.
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Students, employees and victims offered new safeguards for personal data and rights.
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The proposed amendment states that individual privacy is "essential to the well-being of a free society and shall not be infringed without the showing of a compelling state interest."
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The best defense against a DDoS attack is a strong offense, planned and implemented before you’re in the middle of trying to halt an attack and restore your agency’s services.
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As the nature of data breaches swiftly evolves from stolen PIN numbers to stolen identities, befuddled consumers and appalled industry insiders alike are raising questions about how institutions are protecting the data entrusted to them.
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As a result of increases in the number of breach attempts against utilities, many have invested in new technologies aimed at improving systems’ protection and monitoring capacities.
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The idea? To adapt a military concept that helped keep the world safe from nuclear bombings during the Cold War to the digital battlefield of the 21st century.
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Every time you click on a link, search the Internet or post a photo to social media, personal information is being collected, says Washington state's first chief privacy officer.
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Task force members will be charged with developing policies, programs and strategies to detect vulnerabilities and prevent attacks.
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From sci-fi movies to modern-day reality, technologists warn against a possibility of an arms war in artificial intelligence.
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