Cyber

Last November, election officials in a small Rhode Island town were immediately suspicious when results showed 99 percent of voters had turned down a noncontroversial measure about septic systems.

The Benton County Cyber Crimes Division intends to use bitcoins for undercover operations in various capacities online.

Well before the furor over allegations Moscow meddled in the 2016 election that put Donald Trump in the White House, at least 195 web addresses belonging to Trump, his family or his business empire were hijacked by hackers possibly operating out of Russia.

Reps. Billy Long, R-Mo., and Doris Matsui, D-Calif., recently introduced the HHS Cybersecurity Modernization Act, which would enable a designated chief information Security Officer to report directly to the HHS Secretary rather than the Chief information officer.

Addressing the requirements of the cyber executive order demands serious attention since all aspects of our national interest are now in the cross hairs of criminals and terrorists intent on doing serious damage.

The Georgia attorney general’s office will no longer represent the state’s top elections official in an elections integrity lawsuit filed three days before a crucial computer server was quietly wiped clean.

The hackers who disrupted the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton’s campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin.

A recent inspector general report found that while the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission had made progress in implementing requirements under FISMA, a lack of dedicated resources within the commission still remain.

The OIG showcased a recent security incident involving FERC’s cybersecurity program as a cause for concern.