About five years ago, the CEO of automotive tech firm Altia considered moving the company’s headquarters out of Colorado Springs, where he co-founded the company in 1991. Engineering talent — more plentiful in places such as Silicon Valley and, increasingly, Denver — was hard to find in Colorado Springs, recalled CEO Mike Juran, a […]
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Two Iranians indicted in hacking scheme that held CDOT computers hostage and cost Colorado up to $2 million
A federal grand jury has indicted two Iranian men accused of holding the Colorado Department of Transportation’s computer system hostage earlier this year as part of a wide-reaching international computer hacking and extortion scheme. The malware infected critical systems nationwide, including hospitals, and extorted more than 200 victims who paid the attackers $6 million, according […]
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While Colorado voted, cyber experts were watching for the worst threats to state’s election systems
Inside one of Colorado’s busiest election hubs on Tuesday morning, it was so quiet you could hear someone crack open a can of soda. All eyes were on personal computer screens or the big monitor in the front of the room showing activity on computer systems handling state voter registration, voter verification and vote tallies. […]
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Colorado’s candidates for governor offer a first glimpse into the importance they will place on cybersecurity
COLORADO SPRINGS — Both major candidates for Colorado governor on Monday pledged to step up the state’s efforts to train more cybersecurity professionals and to keep a consumer’s private data safe from malicious attackers. But Republican Walker Stapleton and Democrat Jared Polis, who each gave a short presentation to an attentive audience of security professionals at […]
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Colorado has one of nation’s strictest consumer data protection laws, as of Sept. 1. Are you ready?
When Colorado’s new consumer data-privacy protection law goes in effect Sept. 1, the rules will be among the strictest in the nation. Any company or public agency storing a Coloradan’s personal details will now need a data-protection policy, a swift notification system and the means to destroy the data when it’s no longer needed. But […]