WaTech in the News

The LCB has a very cool, regularly updated dashboard showing the importance of cannabis to Washington.

For example, you can see that daily sales have more than doubled between January and June 2015.

Even better for the Open Data nerds out there...the seed-to-sale traceability system that supports some of the dashboard functions has documented API's for interacting with…

A serious security flaw was identified on April 26 that affects all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE). As a result, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is advising Americans not to use IE until a fix is found. Microsoft has confirmed that it is working to fix the code that allows IE versions 6 through 11 to be exploited by the vulnerability.

The security…

Criminals are hard at work trying to steal money being sent to taxpayers under the federal CARES Act. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is urging taxpayers to be on the lookout for a surge of fraudulent calls and email phishing attempts related to the Coronavirus, or COVID-19. Taxpayers should watch out not only for phishing emails but also text messages, websites and social media attempts…

The cybersecurity landscape is changing rapidly, and not in a good way.

Cyberattacks are no longer the sole domain of nation states and a relatively small number of criminals with technical skills. Hackers now sell their services on the internet; much like private stores sell goods and services to the broader public online.

State and local…

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