Cybersecurity

Interns at a Catholic college in Pennsylvania are setting up computers, installing monitors and beginning work on network infrastructure for the college's cybersecurity and digital forensics program.

This recent evolution of general tech support scams is on the rise nationwide and is disproportionately affecting older people, according to a recent public service announcement from the FBI.

In a post-COVID environment, maintaining a cohesive culture of teamwork — and cybersecurity — can be a challenge, but there are strategies leaders can use ensure staff stay engaged.

Governments and political actors around the world, in democracies and autocracies, are using AI to generate texts, images and video to manipulate public opinion in their favor and automatically censor critical content.

After a costly cyber attack on the local government in Brown County, S.D., in 2021, the state’s Committee on County Funding and Services is stressing how important it is budget-wise to invest in cybersecurity.

From revisiting the effectiveness of passwords to exploring what cyber response can learn from emergency management, our annual cybersecurity issue digs into what it takes to keep government secure in 2023.

From strengthening public safety to improving staff morale and productivity, combining artificial intelligence with automation is an effective way to bolster cybersecurity for state and local government agencies.

Matt Massey, president of the Alabama School for Cyber Technology and Engineering, is leading an independent state high school that focuses on cybersecurity and engineering and has recruited 333 students since 2020.

Scammers are impersonating technology, banking and government officials in a complex ruse aimed at convincing a typically older victim that foreign hackers have infiltrated their financial accounts.

Sophisticated social engineering attacks have led to hundreds of data breaches this year. What can be done? And what new resources can help?   

National Security Agency Director Army Gen. Paul M. Nakasone has announced the creation of a new entity designed to oversee development of artificial intelligence in U.S. national security systems.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s new public safety campaign is trying to raise the national cyber posture by offering short, simple tips to all users.

Federal officials have released the Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program notice of funding opportunity, and all federally recognized tribes can now apply for money to help improve their cyber postures.

The University of Maine at Augusta is working with the Maine Department of Labor on a cybersecurity and IT registered apprenticeship program to recruit, train or upskill employees for those fields.

A recent data breach at Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida exposed names, dates of birth, district student identification numbers, state identification or Social Security numbers of 254 students.

With the help of an outside firm investigating, the university learned in July that, as far back as 2021, a hacker accessed some 7 million Social Security numbers of applicants, students and employees dating to 1989.

South Florida is known as the fraud epicenter of the United States, and Fort Lauderdale certainly realized that last week when $1.2 million in taxpayer money fell into the hands of scammers.

Attackers exploited the Log4j vulnerability in spite of mitigation efforts, compromised several accounts and began reconnaissance. Three days and 5,000-plus password resets later, the court system was back on safe ground.