Cybersecurity
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Laci Henegar, Rogers State University's STEM coordinator, graduated in December with the university's first master's degree in cybersecurity policy, governance and training. -
Amid all the attention around AI, Mississippi CIO Craig Orgeron said his state is focused on building the foundations state government needs to scale emerging technologies into 2026.
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The broadband and telecommunications company Brightspeed, which is based in the North Carolina city, is probing multiple reports its customers may have been victimized by a data breach.
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In an email sent Tuesday to city employees, City Manager T.C. Broadnax said information stored by the city’s human resources department was exposed in the May cyber attack against city systems.
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The ransomware attack, concealed in an email, downed all three of the George County’s servers when it struck on July 15. The incident prompted an emergency declaration that allowed the IT team to circumvent contracting processes.
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The city's Public Safety Committee has voted to support the San Diego Police Department's controversial smart streetlight proposal this week. The technology, complete with license plate readers, was first pitched in March.
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It’s difficult to see how artificial intelligence systems work, and to see whose interests they work for. Regulation could make AI more trustworthy. Until then, user beware.
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The lawsuit alleges facial recognition technology used on the app until November 2021 violated Illinois’ biometric privacy law, which is considered the strictest in the nation.
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San Diego officials on Tuesday gave themselves another three years to review the city’s many surveillance technologies, an extension that should prevent the tools from being put on pause.
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Odessa Mayor Javier Joven is demanding transparency around the investigation into a data breach that stemmed from a former city employee’s account. The account was not disabled after the employee’s termination.
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The proposed voluntary program would let companies feature labels on consumer products that clear certain cybersecurity criteria, helping consumers identify and select items that are less prone to cyber attack.
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The California Public Employees' Retirement System launched its three-day off-site meeting in Monterey with a long-awaited update on a June data breach that exposed sensitive information.
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Mayor Javier Joven announced someone has accessed the city's computer network numerous times since December using the former city attorney’s accounts, which someone failed to deactivate following her termination.
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The new National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan sets specific time frames for providing boosted state and local cyber support, deciding on a federal cyber insurance backstop and more.
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A series of cyber attacks across Texas are part of a growing statewide and national trend of increasingly sophisticated groups working through computers to steal money and information, according to officials in the FBI.
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The White House just released the new National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan. Here are the details, selected media coverage and what you need to know moving forward.
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The attack highlights risks around holiday weekend attacks, targeted software supply chains and the growing popularity of data-theft-based extortion. Still, zero-day exploits comprise only a small slice of extortion attacks.
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What could have been a digital quagmire for California’s largest school district served as a chance to hone cyber response and gird its more than 250 applications used by some 1.6 million users.
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The proposal would create a new pilot program, allotting up to $200 million over three years, for schools and libraries to assess effective cybersecurity methods and implement advanced firewalls, among other needs.
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Hackers breached Microsoft Outlook email accounts linked to government agencies in the U.S., and others in Western Europe, according to officials, which described the attackers as being based in China.
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As with any powerful new technology, the potential for artificial intelligence to analyze large volumes of data and automate processes comes with a risk that it will be used for nefarious purposes.
