Cybersecurity
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To guard against phishing-based ransomware attacks, the state is outfitting 161 of its jurisdictions and other public-sector organizations with hardware-based protection. And it's not alone. -
Gov. Tim Walz has authorized $1.2 million in state emergency disaster assistance to address a cybersecurity incident that disrupted digital services in St. Paul for several weeks this summer.
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County commissioners approved a three-year Microsoft 365 and cybersecurity agreement, plus a cyber suite add-on. Two members said the risk of exposing sensitive data outweighs concerns about monthly costs.
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Bogus emergency calls increased load on 9-1-1 call centers and prompted police to be dispatched unnecessarily
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'The state of IT is good. We have a robust IT infrastructure and when it comes to challenges, we're ahead of our peers'
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The bi-annual report provides analysis and discussion of trends in Internet attacks, vulnerabilities, malicious code activity, and additional security risks for the period of July 1, 2004 to Dec. 31, 2004.
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Major service providers share real-time network attack profiles across global network boundaries
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Half of organizations have no IM policies despite numerous enterprise security risks
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contained files with the names and Social Security numbers of more than 98,000 individuals
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A New York state teenager arrested last month for threatening to tell other spammers how to send waves of unsolicited messages
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'They spend millions of dollars a year on high-tech computer security defenses, but often fail to address the simplest, most critical aspect of information security: the human element'
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Flaw would have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code embedded in an XPM file stored on an infected machine
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Creates uniform standards for voter identification, ballot counting, voting machine records, and the training of election judges and poll workers
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"Organizations should perform a risk assessment of any handheld device installation to determine the types of security mechanisms that should be installed on devices and whether the cost is justified by the risk to the organization"
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"If the mail server stops, we start getting calls from Costa Rica and South Africa within ten minutes"
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For consideration at WSIS in November
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"A Director-level position does not have the sufficient stature or programmatic authority for accountability, or to reach across sectors"
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Department of Administration to conduct examination of all security systems
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