The business manager of Grand Forks Public Schools said Monday the $2.2 million swindled from the district earlier this year was the result of a phishing or social engineering scam.

The effects of a November ransomware attack against Oceanside, California’s Tri-City Medical Center were contained more than two weeks ago, but now those behind the cyber incident are publishing stolen data on the dark web.

Modesto confirmed that the February 3 breach of its Police Department's digital network was a ransomware attack and said that a number of people's personal information, including Social Security and driver's license numbers, may have been accessed.

Southeastern Louisiana University suffered a week-long outage of its website, email, or system for submitting assignments after a "potential incident" last week caused the university to shut down its network.

The newly created Cyber Unit falls under the state’s Office of Homeland Security and will act as a centralized cybersecurity information and response center. The unit will be led by the state’s first Cyber Director Bobby Freeman.

The public community college in California shut down its servers Sunday morning after detecting suspicious activity on its network, which it continues to investigate while slowly bringing the network back online.

Hartnell College held an emergency meeting of its governing board this week to discuss the school’s ongoing network outage in response to a potential cybersecurity threat.

Maryland added two new high-level cyber roles to the roster, appointing a director of state cybersecurity and director of local cybersecurity, the governor’s office announced. Both positions are part of the IT department and report to the state CISO.

With quite a bit of work already done, but plenty more to go, the Fremont County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution to extend the Declaration of a Local Disaster Due to Cybersecurity Attack on Computer Technology Systems for Fremont County.

The number of connected vehicles on the road has risen, and most automakers have plans to add millions more over the rest of the decade offering over-the-air updates, on-demand features, and technology perks that customers demand.