The Department of Justice (DoJ) said today it has charged the alleged mastermind of the LockBit ransomware group – regarded by U.S. authorities as among the most prolific attackers worldwide since 2022 – with more than two dozen Federal crimes.
Brown University has named Chris Keith as its new vice president for information technology and chief information officer (VPIT-CIO).
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has named Matthew McCarville as the state’s new chief information officer (CIO).
Following the Arizona Supreme Court upholding an 1864 total abortion ban, Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes, both Democrats, launched ReproductiveHealth.az.gov to educate Arizona women about their healthcare rights and resources.
The Pennsylvania Department of State has rolled out a redesigned election night returns (ENR) website that will offer up-to-the-minute results from counties after the polls close on election night.
Pro-Russia hacktivists are targeting and compromising small-scale operational technology (OT) systems in North American and European critical infrastructure sectors – including water and wastewater systems (WWS), dams, energy, and food and agriculture – according to a joint fact sheet released today by leading Federal cyber agencies.
Lawmakers are making a last-minute plea to save the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) as it begins to wind down this week, leaving millions of Americans at risk of losing their subsidized internet service.
The Idaho Department of Education announced it will help states and charters install vape detectors in high school bathrooms and locker rooms through the Vape Detector Pilot grant.
As more states are taking advantage of StateRAMP, officials from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) say that state CIOs no longer view cloud as a priority, but as an expectation.
President Biden today signed a new national security memorandum (NSM) that aims to better protect U.S. critical infrastructure sectors by enlisting U.S. intelligence agencies to ramp up their sharing of threat data across multiple levels of government and with private-sector critical infrastructure providers.
