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Over the last year, cyber criminals tried to acquire information related to the virus and possible vaccines or extort the health care industry, according to a new report said.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is using simulation technology that collects publicly available data from multiple sources and overlays it on a map so that firefighters can predict a blaze’s behavior in real time.

By Anthony Robbins Feb 17, 2021 The United States leads the world in military assets with 40,000 armored vehicles, 13,000 aircraft and nearly 500 ships. Maintaining all these assets to ensure they’re combat-ready costs the Defense Department an estimated $71 billion annually. The sustainment for just one program -- the F-35 Lightning II fighter -- is projected to cost a whopping $1 trillion over the next 60 years. Sustainment is not only expensive, it’s essential for safety. We’ve lost 224 brave pilots and air crew members as a result of thousands of military aviation accidents since 20...

By Jan Lemnitzer Feb 18, 2021 In the past five years, ransomware attacks have evolved from rare misfortunes into common and disruptive threats. Hijacking the IT systems of organizations and forcing them to pay a ransom in order to reclaim them, cybercriminals are freely extorting millions of pounds from companies – and they’re enjoying a remarkably low risk of arrest as they do it. At the moment, there is no coordinated response to ransomware attacks, despite their ever-increasing prevalence and severity. Instead, states’ intelligence services respond to cybercriminals on an ad-hoc basi...

Feb 17, 2021 When the Census Bureau announced that the data states use for redistricting would be delayed, many states plans were thrown for a loop. Between complications caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, new technology to protect privacy and security and the Trump administration’s shifting deadlines, the release of the redistricting data will delayed until Sept. 30. That data includes the details on race, ethnicity, voting age, housing occupancy status at the census block level – all of which plays into the redistricting decisions that will most immediately impact the 2022 primary electio...