Mayor Suthers delivered his 8th State of the City Address, highlighting the city’s goals and accomplishments including infrastructure, economic growth, and community collaboration. He also identified and discussed the city's current challenges.
What State Leaders Need to Know About Cybersecurity
A new training program is an opportunity for lawmakers and their staffs to get up to speed so that the policies they craft address the issue in ways that don’t harm the economy.
July 13, 2021 •
(Shutterstock) As a former state chief information security officer for both Colorado and California, and the federal Department of Homeland Security’s first deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity, one of my continuing tasks was working with state lawmakers and state government executives to help them understand the multitude of issues in the cybersecurity arena. Because legislative bodies turn over fairly frequently, this was a never-ending responsibility that I took seriously and to which I devoted a significant amount of time, and still do.
Cybercriminals working to take control of smartphones to access even more accounts
NCC experts issue SIM swapping attack warning
With so many of us doing so much on our smartphones as part of our daily lives, imagine handing over your phone and everything in it to a criminal. News5 is getting a warning from cybersecurity experts about a tactic crooks are using to take over our phones.
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COLORADO SPRINGS â With so many of us doing so much on our smartphones as part of our daily lives, imagine handing over your phone and everything in it to a criminal. News5 is getting a warning from cybersecurity experts about a tactic crooks are using to take over our phones.
As a young woman in Southeast Colorado Springs, Latrina Ollie looked around and saw all the problems many others see when they visit her corner of town: higher rates of crime and poverty than most other parts of the city, a lack of economic development, and too few opportunities for young people to realize a better future for themselves.
Rather than look for answers outside of the neighborhoods where she grew up, Ollie realized that the changes she and her neighbors were seeking could â and perhaps should â come from within.
âFor me, it was always just a matter of wanting to do more, not really knowing how to do more, but I knew there was something that needed to be done,â said Ollie. âThatâs when I was able to help form a community engagement group, called Be the Change 719.â