Cybersecurity

After Long Beach was hit with a cyber attack in November 2023, most of the city’s systems were briefly taken offline and replaced with a stripped back version of the government website, null.

President Trump recently signed an null shifting some of the responsibility from the federal government to states to improve their infrastructure to address risks, including cyber crimes.

Officials in the city of about 129,000 residents are probing a server outage detected Friday. They’re working with cybersecurity experts and have disconnected “affected and critical assets to secure our systems.”

City Council members voted unanimously to withdraw the renewal with a debt collector following word its 2024 data breach could have affected thousands. Hamilton County was also impacted.

A ransomware attack in February compromised private information of employees and students at Baltimore City Public Schools, and the city’s state’s attorney’s office was targeted in March.

While viral videos of hacked crosswalks displaying faked messages amused many, the pranks highlight a sinister cybersecurity vulnerability lurking within the wireless technologies used by local government infrastructure.

In our emerging age of AI, there are predictions about various careers becoming obsolete. More people are asking about moving into cyber roles. Here are some tips to consider.

An 11-week program invited students to Fiserv, a financial services company, after school on Tuesdays to experiment with and learn about artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and robotics.

Through internships with the Lackawanna County district attorney’s office, university students will work with detectives to extract and analyze cellphone data related to criminal cases.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Program will continue operating with an 11-month continuation of its federal contract. It will ultimately transition to the newly launched CVE Foundation.

Officials shuttered the system on the Maine Turnpike for half a day in March to avoid a potential cybersecurity incident. Accounts and their private data were never at risk of being compromised.

Texas would establish a new state cybersecurity agency to fend off attacks on sensitive public systems and private data under legislation approved Tuesday in the Texas House.

K-12 cybersecurity leaders say AI can’t fully automate cybersecurity, cloud vendors are not the solution to data governance, teachers should not use unvetted apps, and student accounts need multifactor authentication.

The Southern California city added $1 million to its cybersecurity budget during a 16-month investigation into a 2023 network breach that exposed sensitive data. Officials are now notifying people who may have been affected.

Governments are increasingly using specialized anonymous digital tip lines to tackle niche community issues. The data, however, has become an attractive target for threat actors. Here's how one company is responding.

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate talked about the federal government’s changes to cybersecurity funding and said he “would not want to see” programs go away. The state, he said, does “count a lot on those cyber protections.”

Lawmakers in several states are considering bills that would give residents more control over their data. A measure under consideration in Texas would formally recognize global privacy controls.

An informative event last week hosted attendees from law enforcement, the judicial system, private businesses and educational institutions such as Troy University, Wallace Community College and local high schools.