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Local governments' cybersecurity crisis in 8 charts

  • Written by Donald Norris, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Cities and towns are becoming more technologically sophisticated – but remain vulnerable to attack.It Never Ends/Pixabay

Within the past few weeks, two large American cities learned that their information systems were hacked. First, Atlanta revealed that it had been the victim of a ransomware attack that took many of the city’s services...

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