Cybersecurity
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After a phishing incident in December initially cost Warren County over $3.3 million, officials may soon pass a thorough computer use policy for county employees that will touch on related issues. -
Funding from the federal State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program will support the delivery of multifactor authentication hard tokens to 161 local governments in New York state.
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The auditor’s budget was cut after its refusal to join a countywide cyber program and contribute $1 million from its real estate assessment fund to help mitigate the cybersecurity costs.
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City officials believe that the security requirements needed by law enforcement were not met by Google’s cloud technology.
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The eCrime Unit will work across jurisdictional lines to investigate and prosecute cybercrime, identity theft, computer theft, online child pornography, intellectual property theft and similar crimes.
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Developers at San Francisco hackathon produce what may be a first-of-its-kind prototype of a legislative alert app that sends notifications via text message.
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Rep. Dan Lungren is expected to introduce a bill to designate the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Security vendor Imperva predicts what to look out for next year.
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Security vendors weigh in on the seriousness of the issue and what can be done to protect critical infrastructure systems.
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The airports are replacing their identification card reader systems and prepping security infrastructure for an eventual upgrade to biometric-based identification.
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What do Snoop Dogg, Drake and the West Virginia chief information security officer have in common?
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Government agencies can maintain security but still avoid being no-fun zones.
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Web-based intrusions have increased 90 percent since 2009, and nation is cyberattacked thousands of times each day.
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Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., asked the Federal Trade Commission for a report on the security impacts of facial recognition technology.
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Mark Weatherford, former cybersecurity chief for California and Colorado, is named to new DHS post.
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Last week’s bust of a worldwide credit card fraud ring reminds government that it too must be vigilant to protect payment information.
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The Michigan Cyber-Command Center will be directed by the Michigan State Police from within the state’s Emergency Operations Center.
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Security expert Mark Russinovich talks about the complexities and ambiguities of cyber-warfare and cyber-terrorism.
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State CTO Dan Lohrmann will lead new organization as Michigan’s Chief Security Officer.
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The configurations and controls required by FISMA Moderate are “extensive,” according to Amazon, and include third-party audits and process documentation.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. must do more to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity and availability of internal financial systems and information.
