The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other national groups are urging organizations to take preventative action to protect themselves against a surge of ransomware attacks.
Local governments across the United States and overseas have been hit in recent weeks. Louisiana declared a state of emergency July 24 after three school systems were attacked with…
Like all state agencies, Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech) works hard to respond well and timely to public records requests. Today the agency is publishing a table of its public records requests for the last few years.
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The Secretary of State publishes a searchable database of all the corporations in Washington with their UBI, registered agent, profit/nonprofit status etc. Very cool. They also offer a downloadable flat file in either XML or tab-separated format. It's a big file though -- about a gigabyte.
Here's what a sample set of the database looks like in data.wa.gov:
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Azure Sentinel: In support of WaTech's security incident and event management (SIEM) project, Microsoft has scheduled some training opportunities for Azure Sentinel. This would be a great opportunity for state agency technical staff to get a better understanding of the tool. Please see dates and times below. Any state agency IT staff who want to attend a session, and did not receive…
Microsoft is urging computer users running older versions of Windows - including Windows 7 - to update their operating systems as soon as possible to protect against a new vulnerability.
Microsoft released fixes on May 14 to protect against the vulnerability being referred to as BlueKeep. In a blog post on May 30 Microsoft stated "if recent reports are accurate, nearly one million…
