cyber security
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Colorado web portal back online after ‘foreign’ cyberattack
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The state-run Colorado.gov portal homepage went back online Thursday evening after the state said a cyberattack shut it down. The homepage resumed operations around 6 p.m. Thursday, just over 24 hours after the State Emergency Operations Center said an “anonymous suspected foreign actor” forced it offline. State officials said the attacker also targeted multiple other…
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BIDLACK | Gardner-Coons bill shows bipartisanship, somehow, is still alive
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Did you hear that news report about the foreign government that sent enemy soldiers to Colorado? It seems they attacked a couple of local businesses and even tried to sneak onto Peterson Air Force Base. These foreign troops were guileful and clever, and they managed to spy on several Colorado-based Target and Walmart stores. Pretty…
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BIDLACK | ‘Perhaps it’s time for a separate Cyber Force?’
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I pulled my first alert – as going out to an intercontinental ballistic missile site for a 24-hour tour is called – in the early Fall of 1981. A freshly minted second lieutenant in the United States Air Force, I had finished my “tech school” at Vandenburg Air Force Base in California a few weeks…
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Officials: Russian hackers scanned Colorado’s election infrastructure last year but failed to breach it
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Russian hackers tried without success to get into Colorado’s computerized voter system before last year’s election, officials with the Colorado secretary of state’s office said Friday. The Department of Homeland Security informed Secretary of State Wayne Williams’ office in a phone call before noon that Colorado was among states targeted last summer by hackers earlier identified…
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Sen. Cory Gardner says Colorado could cash in on ‘underreported’ cybersecurity sector
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Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner on Thursday told the Rocky Mountain Post that cybersecurity is a largely underreported topic in the state despite its potential to make Colorado a national and even international leader in one of the fastest growing tech sectors. “The issue of cybersecurity doesn’t always receive the attention it deserves, but is…
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Hackers beware: Colorado’s clerks will be watching — and auditing — election results
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Denverite’s Adrian Garcia reports this week that Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams is touting post-election audits as a new, enhanced safeguard against election manipulation in Colorado: The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office has been traveling to different counties this year to train clerks how to conduct the audit, office spokeswoman Lynn Bartels said Monday.…
