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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Computer attacks are common and often not reported when detected. Such breaches pose a significant threrat to the enterprise.
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The e-mail contained a disparaging poem about immigrants.
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A North Carolina man is suing Elizabeth Dole's campaign for sending unsolicited political e-mails.
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Nobody is sure who's running the site, but its blend of news and dish appears to be gaining fans.
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Internet cafes must keep records of what information and sites customers visit for two months.
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A federal agency charged with defending the homeland has purchased 6,500 cryptographic smart cards to secure sensitive data stored on laptop computers.
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Who is getting out of jail? What crimes are on the rise? Those questions are among those that are answered by visiting a unique Albuquerque Web site.
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A police-contracting computer evidence specialist says evidence eliminator strips law-enforcement officers of their power and should be banned.
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The disaster tolerant configuration allows another center to resume full operation with accurate up-to-date information if the communication center becomes inoperable.
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Start-up hopes to use knowledge of how the human brain functions to improve video technology.
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The tool helps law enforcement quickly identify inappropriate or illegal computer graphics files in ambient storage areas of computer hard disk drives.
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Federal, state and local agencies are working together on Internet Crimes Against Children task forces.
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A special City Council meeting to examine the SimHouston contract didn't happen, but the actions of the company behind SimHouston is raising eyebrows.
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The committee believes the Justice Department is cooperating with Congress' monitoring of the Patriot Act, but the ACLUS is accusing the DOJ of hiding crucial information.
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The move might spur the use of digital signatures by both the public and private sectors.
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The distributed denial-of-service attack targeted root servers, but only lasted an hour.
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The Direct Marketing Association now supports federal and state anti-spam laws.
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Open-source software labeled "problematic" and a threat to security.
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