Local governments a growing target for cyberattacks (access required)

By: Meg Tully May 31, 2018 Comments Off

A major cyberattack on the city of Atlanta, Georgia in March shut down city computers for five days, exposing critical vulnerabilities in the government system. Just days later, Baltimore was hit with a separate ransomware attack that required 911 dispatchers to manually dispatch calls. In May, the Idaho legislature website was taken over by hackers who ...

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Local governments a growing target for cyberattacks

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