Cybersecurity
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Officials from the state Department of Accounting and General Services warned residents that bad actors are “creating deceptive web addresses” to trick them into releasing personal information.
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As a Missouri website that serves more than 50,000 state employees remains shut down after suspicious activity, it appears that quick work by fraud protection systems may have blocked unauthorized transactions.
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Over the course of three months in 2025, hackers exploited vulnerabilities in Oracle E-Business Suite to exfiltrate Social Security numbers, birth dates and bank information for millions of students and staff.
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Experts on a recent panel said cyber defenders need to safeguard operational technology without inadvertently causing disruptions for the services they seek to protect.
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The Rogers County Commission agreed Monday to move ahead on a proposed cybersecurity training course for all county employees. Their decision followed a presentation from the IT director of Claremore on similar training for city workers.
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SponsoredIn what NASCIO called a historic first, digital government services tied cybersecurity for No. 1 this year.
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Parents concerned about their kids’ online activity should start a conversation early and often with them about safety, according to tips shared with parents at a Meta-hosted workshop this month.
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The breach stems from a cyber attack that accessed at least 20 computers and a city server, leading to a temporary shutdown of all affected services. The city has notified those affected.
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The airport said the incident also affects some Port of Seattle systems, and that there’s no estimated time by which systems will be restored. Flights can continue, but some associated services are down.
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By the time state officials learned what was happening, the prisoners had spent nearly $88,000 on digital media products, according to a review of more than 1,700 pages of internal investigative records.
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The FBI launched a new nationwide campaign this past week to raise awareness of the surge in online fraud and scams impacting the public and to encourage reporting to law enforcement.
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The federal government is alleging that Georgia Tech and its research arm didn’t follow enforcement of cybersecurity rules stated within U.S. Department of Defense contracts.
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The U.S. Air Force is indeed considering a $1 billion proposal from Port San Antonio in Texas to relocate its cybersecurity unit there from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. The courtship dates to February.
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CrowdStrike is a useful lesson for officials who draw up government IT contracts, pushing them to ask the question of how future contracts can prepare for any unplanned outages.
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Wi-Fi at Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport remains out, after an incident in May took the Kansas city’s computer systems offline. A new system is in the works, but temporary Wi-Fi may come online this fall.
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Data breaches hit more than 1 billion victims in 2024, a huge increase driven by massive data compromises at Ticketmaster Entertainment LLC and Advance Auto Parts Inc. according to a new report.
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Many class-action lawsuits have been filed against a Florida-based data firm following disclosures that a breach might have compromised personal information, including Social Security numbers.
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Virginia Tech CISO Randy Marchany discusses his career, SANS training and all things cybersecurity at a major university in 2024.
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Computerized in-vehicle systems for police are still not up, and residents are unable to pay utility bills online. The cybersecurity breach, detected Aug. 4, shuttered City Hall for nearly a week.
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The project, which is called UnDisruptable27, wants society to prepare for near-future geopolitical conflicts in which cyber attacks are aimed at Americans’ access to water, medical care, power and food.
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This year the Los Angeles Superior Court was hit by a ransomware attack that infected its computer system with damaging software, forcing it to temporarily close.