Cybersecurity

With the new law, Texas has launched an online portal for incident reports, giving local government 48 hours to inform the state of ransomware or other suspected cybersecurity breaches.

A suburban public school district in Pennsylvania has restored Internet connectivity after disconnecting its network last week due to an unspecified security threat, the details of which are still not public.

The University of Michigan is requiring all students and staff to reset their passwords by Sept. 12 after officials discovered a "significant security threat" and took their network offline for a couple days.

The prize will focus on rural and municipal electric utilities that lack cyber resources, offering winners funding and technical assistance to help boost their cybersecurity efforts.

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The State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program could send $1 billion from the federal government down to states and cities, but before anyone gets the money, the spending plans must be approved.

Carlisle Area School District shut down its Internet system Sept. 1 to investigate a possible security breach, although the district's phones and website remained operational.

Attorneys for a former student and former employee alleged in federal court that the university violated the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act by not doing more to prevent a data breach.

For the first time since the incident, City Manager T.C. Broadnax recently agreed to a sit-down talk about how hackers were able to access the personal information of at least 30,000 people.

Reports from cybersecurity companies in 2023 show mixed trends regarding the number of global data breaches, ransomware attacks, records affected and government costs. But one thing is clear: Cyber attack impacts steadily grow.

A 45,000-square-foot renovation at the University of Alabama in Huntsville is laying the groundwork for an interdisciplinary facility to be called the Center for Cybersecurity Research, Education & Advanced Training.

The MTA’s OMNY payment system could reveal your trip history to anyone who has your credit card number — and cybersecurity experts said Wednesday the setup might threaten your privacy.

The National Security Agency has given the National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) designation to the cybersecurity program of a private Christian university in South Carolina.

Most systems at the university were back online Wednesday after a targeted attack Sunday had prompted officials to disconnect the university's server. Details on the attack are scant as it's still under investigation.

More than 100,000 Pima County residents could be affected by a nationwide data breach that affected the company that handled COVID-19 case investigations and contact tracing here, officials said.

The university was still without Internet on Tuesday but gradually bringing services back online after disconnecting Sunday due to suspicious activity, which a university regent has confirmed was a targeted attack.

The FBI led a multinational effort involving the authorities from France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Romania and Latvia to take down criminal infrastructure, disabling malware known as Qakbot.

The Ohio History Connection attempted to negotiate over extortion payments related to a July ransomware attack, but cyber criminals rejected the act, potentially leading to a likely data leak.