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The increasing number and frequency of cyber attacks against municipalities is a cause for credit concern, S&P Global Ratings says.
December 28 -
Several states have passed, or are considering, legislation to bar local governments from making payments to criminals who hold computer systems hostage.
May 20 -
The city will ask the Louisiana State Bond Commission to authorize issuing up to $100 million of revenue notes.
May 7 -
Georgia, Wisconsin, Texas and other states have master state contracts with insurers that are available to local governments for cybersecurity.
February 20 -
The bill would authorize a new grant program at the Department of Homeland Security to take action on cybersecurity at the state and local level.
February 11 -
Hackers have finally done what bond issuers may have feared most from cyber criminals.
February 7 -
The first hard evidence of how this is affecting ratings in the public finance sector came from a downgrade two months ago involving Princeton Community Hospital in West Virginia.
January 14 -
The new online security force follows ransomware attacks on at least four local governments and agencies in Ohio during 2019.
December 10 -
Texas officials say the attacks appear to be coming from a single source.
August 19