Health & Science
Harris County mental health provider targeted in suspected ransomware attack
Posted on · The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD shut down their network this week in an effort to prevent the spread of the cyberattack.
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Houston Matters
Transformation of Cybersecurity
Posted on · We talk with Chris Bronk, assistant professor at the University of Houston’s College of Technology on what is cybersecurity anyway, and what does its ongoing evolution mean for the industry?
Houston Matters
Full Show: Election Security, And Gender Roles In Shakespeare (July 27, 2018)
Posted on · On Friday's Houston Matters: We address concerns over security in the upcoming November election. Our non-experts discuss The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly of the week's news. And we examine a new approach to gender roles at the Houston Shakespeare Festival.
City of Houston
Houston Tests Its Preparedness for A Cyberattack
Posted on · The city is conducting a three-day exercise to find out how well it would react to such an attack on top of a major disaster.
News
3 Days Of War Games Test Government Response To Serious Cyberattacks
Posted on · The three-day exercise involves more than 1,000 participants from state and federal agencies. The goal of this simulation is collaboration in the face of a common, large-scale threat
News
Experts See Possible North Korea Links To Global Cyberattack
Posted on · Cybersecurity experts are pointing to circumstantial evidence that North Korea may be behind the global "ransomware" attack: the way the hackers took hostage computers and servers across the world was similar to previous cyberattacks attributed to North Korea.