Cybersecurity
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Bryce Bailey, deputy state CISO, has been tapped to be interim CISO in the Cornhusker State following the departure of Abby Eccher-Young. The state is also looking to hire a new chief data officer. -
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.
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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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The indictment says the defendants gained unauthorized access to networks from January 2011 to March 2014, and conspired to use and sell information they stole.
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Cyberattackers aren’t invincible, but you probably need to rethink security.
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The projects to thwart online advertising scams and to improve cellphone security underscore how the local office established itself as a solver of complex problems and has earned increased responsibility.
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The 2014 Deloitte-NASCIO Cybersecurity study shows what many state chief information security officers already know -- the landscape is fraught with evolving challenges.
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With its new iOS 8 software, Apple is locking itself out of users' smartphones -- and leaving cops and the courts out in the cold.
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While total anonymity on the highly commercialized Internet is probably impossible, security experts and tech leaders say that one way or another, anonymity will be a bigger part of the digital future.
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Ransomware was once a small-time malware problem, but it has exploded in use and become more sophisticated.
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Microsoft will drop support for Server 2003 in just under 10 months, potentially affecting 24 million servers.
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New credit card standards go into effect October 2015 that should push most Wisconsin retailers to take the step, but in light of the recent cyber terrorism, critics say the transition is too slow.
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In the digital age, damage to sensitive communication networks and power grids could be crippling.
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The company has reworked its latest encryption so only the owner of the device it's on can gain access to user data typically stored on iPhones and iPads.
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Theft of personal data gets all the headlines, but experts explain even more harmful is the theft of technical data that cost billions of dollars to develop.
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As part of a national project, the state's Department of Finance is urging investment advisers to participate in a cybersecurity survey, as well as take adequate steps to ensure their policies and procedures are up to date.
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We don’t ask questions that we should ask about all the technology that's taking over our lives.
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Atlanta CIO Samir Saini says that right now, the IT priority in the city is to make sure its infrastructure can support what it has today, and also can scale to support future solutions like citizen-facing applications.
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Following a massive data breach in 2012, the state has taken steps to overhaul its decentralized IT governance model, giving the governor more control of technology policy.
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The time is ripe for new encryption technology that stays one step ahead of the National Security Agency and individual hackers.
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The inability of federal prosecutors to nab the accused hacker shows how hard it can be for law enforcement to reach foreign hackers.
