CIO Kimberly LaGrue said early and intensive preparations were key to preventing disaster and recovering without paying a ransom to the hackers.
CIO Kimberly LaGrue said early and intensive preparations were key to preventing disaster and recovering without paying a ransom to the hackers.
The city of New Orleans declared a state of emergency after their computer systems were hit with a cyberattack on Friday morning. The announcement came from Mayor LaToya Cantrell.
After Atlanta and Baltimore, another major US city grapples with a ransomware attack.
Suspicious activity was detected at 5 a.m. and an investigation revealed it was a cyberattack at 11 a.m.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell declared the state of emergency on Friday, but told journalists that no city employee data had been compromised.
Reports suggest the ransomware attack has already cost New Orleans over $1 million and that the city will increase cyber-insurance coverage to $10 million in its wake.
A new report from Moody’s says Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards minimized damage by declaring a statewide emergency after a ransomware attack last month.
Workers in New Orleans City Hall were told a cyberattack has struck the city government, multiple sources said on Friday.
An investigation showed a custom backdoor RAT and the Emotet trojan in the networks of municipal victims of the attacks.
New Orleans is setting an aggressive pace to restore services after a ransomware attack crippled the city’s IT systems: fixing more than 450 servers and 3,500
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell (D) declared a state of emergency in the city on Friday following a cyberattack.
Gov. John Bel Edwards called on Louisiana’s local government leaders to protect their data, reminding them of recent cyberattacks across the state and saying they’re likely to face such a ...
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The Watertown (N.Y.) city school district is the latest to be hit with a cyberattack.
In the latest cyberattack against a government, Louisiana has been forced to declare a state of emergency after a cybersecurity breach.
The state, which just suffered a large-scale coordinated attack in July, was forced to take a majority of its state servers offline to mitigate the risk of the malware's infection ...
The state government of Louisiana hit by a major ransomware attack which forced it to take several state agency servers offline.