Bad actors continue targeting government organizations these days. Along with increases in targeting technology, attacks focused on government targets nearly doubled in 2019 from 2017. Most notably, this included significant jumps in both reconnaissance activity and application-specific attacks. This has been helped by an increase in internet-delivered services designed to help citizens get regional or local assistance. Unfortunately, those same internet-enabled applications have provided additional opportunities to attackers and led to large data breaches impacting federal and state agencies in the US.
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