Cybersecurity
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A faux-phishing email crafted by students at Eminence High School in Kentucky snagged 14 staffers at the district. Another in late January, created with help from generative AI, persuaded 29 staffers to click the link. -
At least three states have taken action following the cyber attack, which exposed sensitive personal and medical information. Hackers accessed a company network during a nearly three-month period.
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Federal lawmakers reactivated the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program earlier this month — but the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees it, is in partial shutdown.
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Personal information, including Social Security numbers, not appropriately secured.
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$3.2 billion lost to phishing attacks, according to survey.
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Infected machines' browsers read ads from a rouge server.
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Brief examines the challenges facing state homeland security directors and highlights the results of an annual survey of the 56 state, D.C. and territorial homeland security directors
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Enables organizations to identify assets, ensure compliance to usage policies, as well as ensure that the most comprehensive and accurate information is collected.
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Consumers, government agencies, educational and medical facilities and businesses all need to handle personal information with the greatest care to prevent ID theft.
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Need to update criminal laws to provide law enforcement with much-needed tools to find and prosecute cyber criminals.
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Data protection laws lay down strict conditions for the use of personal data and there is no evidence that Santa Claus has an adequate compliance program in place.
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Scams we keep falling for, scammers paying their dues and other Cyber Security Issues in this special edition of Government Technology's Security E-Newsletter.
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"Legal instruments may ... be required to guarantee that the technical solutions to minimize the risks for data protection and privacy are in place."
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Governor Rell proposes restrictions on personal information available through online directory assistance.
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SmartMetric has successfully incorporated doorway wireless frequencies into its credit card sized portable biometric fingerprint reader card.
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Washington Post reports government sites with personal information, including SSNs, readily available.
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The road to better information security, ironically, passes through better information sharing.
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Managing identities online has become increasingly complex, cumbersome and costly. Now there's a way out of the mess.
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24 additional red light cameras will be installed across Seattle in 2008.
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