Cybersecurity
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While overall ransomware attack numbers remained steady, higher education institutions drove a sharp rise in exposed records, fueled in part by third-party software vulnerabilities. -
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.
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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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Internet service provider tools and consumer vigilance may help reduce junk e-mail.
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Proposed system to connect states' law enforcement agencies with the federal government.
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Improved computer monitoring systems may prevent future trouble.
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Weblogs track current events and provide commentary.
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EmAlert will alert operators of power plants, water supplies and other critical facilities of potential dangers.
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California Supreme Court rules that order to remove code does not violate free speech.
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One bill calls for a study on how members of Congress could use Web- and satellite-based communications systems to stay in touch in the event of an attack on the Capitol.
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GTSI and Panasonic Deliver Real-time Crime Reporting
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Federal prosecutors have been ordered to speed up investigations and trials of alleged identity thieves.
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Best Buy quit using wireless registers after reports to a Web site about a cracker obtaining a credit card number from the transmission of data.
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A district court judge has ordered the maker of the Replay TV recorder to collect data on customers' viewing habits.
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Diebold Election Systems got the contract to revamp the state's voting systems.
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Police also seize nearly 1,000 computers from the bars, which didn't have the proper filtering software installed on the computers.
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$500,000 grant establishes the Moody's Research Center to expand programs in math, science and technology
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From New York State Department of Correctional Services. Submit by 5/20/2002.
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A civil-liberties group has sued the office for records of proposals for national identification systems.
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