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Colorado governor works to remedy leak of voting system passwords

Oct. 31, 2024 20:47 PM EDT

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Democrat governor said Thursday that he is providing state aircraft and vehicles to help with changing voting system passwords that were accidentally leaked on a state website. The mistake comes amid skepticism of voting systems, even though U.S....

Colorado accidentally put voting system passwords online, but officials say election is secure

Oct. 29, 2024 21:15 PM EDT

DENVER (AP) — Voting system passwords were mistakenly put on the Colorado Secretary of State's website for several months before being spotted and taken down, but the lapse did not pose an immediate threat to the upcoming election, said state election officials Tuesday. The...

Italian politicians express alarm at latest data breach allegedly affecting 800,000 citizens

Oct. 28, 2024 12:07 PM EDT

MILAN (AP) — Italian politicians called Monday for better protection of citizens’ online data following a probe into a hacking scheme that allegedly breached law enforcement, tax authority and other sensitive public data. According to prosecutors in Milan, the data of at least...

12 Colorado mail ballots were stolen and filled out. 3 of them were counted

Oct. 24, 2024 19:01 PM EDT

At least 12 mailed ballots were stolen in a rural Colorado county and then sent in with fraudulent votes, three of which slipped past county election officials and were counted in next month's general election, state officials said Thursday. A fourth ballot was almost counted, but...

Georgia officials say they thwarted an attempt to crash a state election website

Oct. 24, 2024 12:26 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia election officials acted quickly earlier this month to thwart an attempt to flood the state's absentee voter portal in an apparent attempt to crash the site, the secretary of state's office said. The attack was limited to that part of the state's website,...

Hong Kong bars services like WhatsApp and Google Drive from government computers

Oct. 23, 2024 07:49 AM EDT

HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong government is barring most civil servants from using popular apps like WhatsApp, WeChat and Google Drive on their work computers due to potential security risks. The latest IT security guidelines from the Digitial Policy Office have many civil...

Cyprus thwarted a digital attack against the government's main online portal

Oct. 20, 2024 15:37 PM EDT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus said Sunday that it has successfully thwarted a digital attack aimed at blocking access to the government’s central online portal, the latest in a string of similar attacks over a three-day period against state-run utilities and the Cypriot subsidiary of a Greek...

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Here's how to stay safe from scams

Oct. 19, 2024 07:18 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which means it's the perfect time to learn how to protect yourself from scams. “Scams have become so sophisticated now. Phishing emails, texts, spoofing caller ID, all of this technology gives scammers that edge,” said...

Greek police data leak exposes details of elite crime-fighting unit members

Oct. 18, 2024 07:48 AM EDT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek police officers association says it is planning legal action after names and details of hundreds of officers from a new elite crime-fighting agency were published on the internet. The Directorate for Combating Organised Crime, DAOE, was launched...

Alabama man arrested in SEC social media account hack that led the price of bitcoin to spike

Oct. 17, 2024 18:10 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama man was arrested Thursday for his alleged role in the January hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social media account that led the price of bitcoin to spike, the Justice Department said. Eric Council Jr., 25, of Athens, is accused of...