Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced Friday that FCC will investigate last week’s nationwide CenturyLink outage, which impacted 911 service across the country. The outage, which primarily impacted Western states, began shortly after 8 a.m. ET on Dec. 27 and was resolved by 9 p.m. ET on Dec. 28.
The New York Attorney General’s (AG) office has reached a settlement with five companies–Equifax, Western Union, Priceline, Spark Networks, and Credit Sesame–that it said weren’t doing enough to facilitate security of their customers’ data.
State and local governments are starting to make progress–albeit slowly–on adopting latest-generation email authentication protocols.
Today, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology took a deep dive into the RAY BAUM’S Act and examined how the legislation is helping to bridge the digital divide in the United States.
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) today released its top technology priorities for 2019, which are determined via voting by forty-nine state CIOs.
A Federal grand jury in Atlanta has indicted two Iranian nationals for the March 2018 ransomware attack against the City of Atlanta. Faramarz Shahi Savandi and Mohammed Mehdi Shah Mansouri were charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The Senate Rules & Administration Committee yesterday advanced two of President Trump’s nominations to the Election Assistance Commission.
Microsoft today announced that it plans to expand its rural broadband initiative, dubbed the Airband initiative, to reach an additional 1 million rural Americans.
Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, on Friday introduced the Global Electoral Exchange Act, which would task the State Department with creating an international election security information sharing program.
