Cybersecurity
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Tulsa International Airport recently suffered a ransomware attack, a spokeswoman confirmed. The facility is independent of the city of Tulsa, which suffered its own such incident in early 2019. -
City officials are trying to determine the full extent of systems impacted by a ransomware attack, which paralyzed phone and computer systems in multiple departments beginning early Wednesday.
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LSU will work with Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee as a “bridge” between national energy research and the implementation of research findings on the Gulf Coast.
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Had a shut down occurred, the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, the department’s 24/7 cyber response center, likely would have needed to significantly cut staffing.
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At issue is Section 222 of the Communications Act, which requires that telecom companies protect customers’ “proprietary information,” such as how you use their services.
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Florida — long known for flimflam, bogus swamp sales and Medicare fraud — was home to seven of the top 20 metro areas for consumer fraud complaints last year.
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Rep. Michael McCaul, along with freshman Reps. Will Hurd and John Ratcliffe, will head committees or subcommittees related to cybersecurity during the 114th Congress.
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In the battle against cybercriminals, Virginia is mustering its troops.
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If we are to proactively defend our cybersecurity, we must move away from historical algorithm audit and analysis to real-time pattern recognition audit and analysis.
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Every day, the state stops about 730,000 attacks on its IT network, ranging from spam and phishing e-mails to malicious bots designed to slow or shut a computer network down.
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County computer experts have concluded that the virus originated from an attachment that an employee received and spread.
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In the age of the data breach, here are questions internal auditors and compliance managers must ask regarding third-party access.
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Because of legal loopholes, consumers often lack any right to control how long their data is kept, who it is shared with and what is collected about them.
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State senate leaders are pushing for legislation that requires companies to encrypt data if they want to do business with Connecticut agencies.
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Members of the committee began meeting in secret last year to discuss concerns about the security of their emails and whether county Executive Rich Fitzgerald's office had snooped on documents.
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Demanding personal passwords could violate students' free-speech rights, as well as their Fourth Amendment protection from unlawful searches and seizures, according to critics.
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Secretaries of the Defense Department, National Security Agency and Cyber Command have warned of the potential for a cyber 9/11 or online Pearl Harbor.
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While it's an issue that cuts across the usual partisan battle lines, the coalition of legislators still faces an uphill battle to bring their "data privacy" amendment to a popular vote next year.
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Much of the security of our personal data depends on businesses implementing proper protocols to protect databases. But government can’t rely on market incentives alone to compel the best data security practices.
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The White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection highlighted the state of increasing cyber threats and news of cooperation that spans sectors in the form of an information-sharing order.
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Policymakers suggest minimum cybersecurity requirements for Defense Department contractors, stronger capabilities for identifying hackers, and better deterrents against foreign online attacks.
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