Cybersecurity
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School and college administrators are among hundreds of attendees at this week's TEEX Cyber Readiness Summit, exploring a wide range of topics from AI and security to identity theft and human firewalls. -
John Cook, outgoing president of Springfield Technical Community College, said rising enrollment numbers are making the college's Security Operations Center more sustainable.
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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.
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IT governance and cybersecurity are two of the most critical issues in government, which is why Los Angeles is combining them in its new cyber command center.
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The bill was passed Thursday as major cell phone manufacturers Apple and Microsoft removed their opposition this week.
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Snapchat agreed to settle with the FTC, which required the developer to revamp its claims about privacy, security and confidentiality of users’ information.
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Maine internship program copes with the ‘silver tsunami.’
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The audit that revealed the error signified a need for all levels of government -- and individuals -- to focus on how they throw away their hard drives.
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Since Snowden's NSA revelations, he has urged Americans to use encryption to help block rampant spying. Here are some encryption techniques that anybody can use to protect their privacy online.
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Supervisor London Breed said she will model her local legislation on the statewide bill written by Sen. Mark Leno of San Francisco.
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The battle is exposing allegiances and allegations of lobbyists’ influence as Sacramento deals with the fallout of corruption scandals that have raised questions about a pay-to-play culture at the Capitol.
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Rep. Eric Swalwell said he's pushing for a pilot program to test radar and motion-detecting cameras and other technology that could detect intrusions and alert personnel automatically.
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At George Bush Intercontinental Airport, these kiosks collect all of a passenger's information for Customs and Border Protection with no previous registration required for use.
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Microsoft announced it patched the IE vulnerability that allowed attackers to execute code on a machine without victims knowing about it.
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Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values focuses on how the public and private sectors can maximize the benefits of big data while minimizing its risks.
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The term “driver’s license” is only useful if people are thinking of it as an optional authentication tool, not as a permit to do something -- and one official says it is absolutely not to create a government-run online identity scheme.
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IT staff said some people’s information apparently became visible on search engines when city and county computer systems were being merged during the city-county consolidation.
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Thousands of employees of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center discovered the frustrating aftermath of cybercrime firsthand after a February data breach.
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The examination released Monday said that without software security patches, hackers can get into confidential information.
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Health-care providers are taking steps to make sure systems are secure, but federal laws requiring a transition to digital medical records leave them potentially vulnerable to sophisticated hacking.
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Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian’s ideas are the basis for what may be America’s next consumer privacy law. But her ideas have fierce critics.
