Itty Bitty Towns News Today

Unsettling, even if youre not directly involved. youve seen stories like this. baltimore hit by a ransom ware attack in may. locked up the city governments computer servers and cost many, many, l millions of dollars to fix. riviera beach, florida, population 35,000. riviera beach in june just voted to pay the hackers who had attacked them. so the hackers would unlock their computer systems. this month nearly two dozen different cities in texas -- a lot of them small little towns -- were all hit ...

Us. ransomware attacks have been happening for a couple of years now targeting big cities, itty bitty towns, state agencagencie even hospitals. with the 2020 election just ahead, we got news today that i know ought to be comforting, and yet, "reuters" reporting tonight the department of homeland security is launching a new program to protect voter registration databases in the states. "intelligence officials are concerned that foreign hackers in 2020 not only will target databases, voter registr...