‘We all need to raise our cyber game’: How New York is battling hackers despite Trump budget cuts

May 9 2025 by Fast Company

 

When the state of New York adopted a new whole-of-state approach to cybersecurity a few years ago, encompassing everything from transit to schools to power and water supplies, officials were still reeling from an attack that plunged part of Long Island into the paper-and-fax era of the ’90s.

Just before Christmas in 2021, a group of hackers, leveraging aging systems and outdated firewalls, quietly slipped into a computer in the Suffolk County clerk’s office and began spreading out...

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