Cybersecurity

Amid struggles to fill open cybersecurity positions, some states have looked toward volunteer citizen brigades trained to respond when smaller jurisdictions need help. Experts consider whether the benefits outweigh the risks.

County officials say that there is no evidence that resident data was stolen in the October cyber attack. The nature and scope of the attack, and any possible impacts to county data, are still being investigated.

North Tonawanda City School District in New York disabled 246 unnecessary user accounts and committed to drafting a corrective action plan to address issues identified in a report from the State Comptroller's Office.

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Schools faced off against ransomware, banking Trojans, cryptominers and other threats, while citing limited cyber funding. This year, more schools struggled with threat detection and incident response management.  

The City Council will meet at noon today to decide whether to ratify the city manager’s push for emergency powers to help the city respond to a cyber incident that struck its systems Tuesday.

A Nevada district that suffered a cyber attack in October is implementing stricter Google Workspace measures, a forced password change for students and two-factor authentication for staff accounts on Infinite Campus.

The FBI and CISA, along with the MS-ISAC, issued a joint advisory explaining Rhysida ransomware actors’ known tactics, techniques and procedures and indicators of compromise — and ways to better defend.

The volunteer group can assemble a response team seven minutes after a request for help — usually from a small city, county or school district. The number of participants has grown alongside the number of attacks.

The state Department of Management Division of Information Technology will provide K-12 schools with 16 months of endpoint detection and response services, including 24-hour monitoring and incident response.

Henry County Schools took its Internet offline last week after detecting suspicious network activity. Except for online classes, district operations are continuing while county, state and federal officials investigate.

A weekend morning ransomware attack on Huber Heights, Ohio, is affecting systems like finance, utilities and human resources. The city expects the disruption to last through the week.

A student is suing Pierce College District in Washington state for allegedly failing to safeguard Social Security numbers and banking information of 155,000 students and staff that was leaked onto the dark web.

The breach that exposed the data of an estimated 1.3 million residents was discovered six months before notifications were sent out. Experts say the delay was necessary to investigate the incident.

To meet a new state requirement, the Cayuga County Legislature is working toward finalizing a plan to transition the county's website to a .gov domain. The local Board of Elections would be the first agency to make the switch.

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The breach affected more than half of the data held by state’s Department of Health and Human Services, as well as data from other agencies. The incident affects 1.3 million people, in some cases exposing Social Security numbers.