The Task Force will work to address cyber security risks and threats to information systems owned or operated by the State or local government.
Just about any activity using the internet can create a cyber risk. A cyber-security conference in Reno is helping to combat those issues.
UPDATE: The Lyon County School District (LCSD) has sent us a new statement on the cyber attack they experienced in July.
The Justice Department has charged a computer programmer working on behalf of the North Korean government with the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014.
Millions of people are potentially at risk after a major data breach on insurance company, Anthem. The company says a cyber-attack breached a database containing the information of about 80 million customers and employees.
Anthem says as many as 80 million customers of the nation's second large health insurance company, Anthem Inc., have had their account information stolen.
The U.S. is imposing sanctions on North Korea in retaliation for the cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment. President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday authorizing the sanctions.
The U.S. Postal Service said Monday it is the victim of a cyberattack and that information about its employees, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised. The FBI and other federal agencies are investigating, the agency said in a statement.