The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) was presented the 2014 award for Outstanding IT Achievement in the Digital Government to Business category by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) in Nashville on September 29th at the annual NASCIO awards…
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2014 Recognition Awards: NASCIO Honors Outstanding Information Technology Achievements
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert on a Critical Vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver AS Java. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability through the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to take control of trusted SAP applications. SAP has released a security update to address a critical vulnerability, CVE-2020-6287.
CISA encourages…
This month's briefing from our colleagues at the Multi State Information Sharing and Analysis Center includes news about criminals using the California wildfires in email scams, updates on malware in circulation, and a report of a drone vulnerability that could allow access to account information:
Cyber criminals use California wildfires as part of email scamCyber threat actors…
From 2009 to 2014 Washington had a state broadband office that used a bunch of open data techniques to show where there was broadband internet service available - and where there wasn't. The basic idea was to build an intelligent market for broadband services and minimize the amount of public money needed. We did pretty well in this area but we left a few challenges on the table.…