cybersecurity

Suffolk County Comptroller John Kennedy said more than 200 taxpayers were mistakenly sent tax arrears notices because of a software problem.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said the cyberattack that has plagued the county for the last four months started much sooner — as early as December of last year.

Four Republicans and two Democrats will make up a special committee with subpoena powers to investigate how a malware attack disabled Suffolk County government computer systems this fall.

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation has been awarded a $37.5 million contract to support cybersecurity and infrastructure through their non-gaming investment arm Command Holdings.

Suffolk County will begin notifying nearly 26,000 county employees that their Social Security numbers may have been exposed in the cyberattack in September.

A memo obtained by Newsday offers the most in-depth look yet at Suffolk County’s cyberattackin September that has stymied many local government functions.

Suffolk County’s plan to outfit police officers with body cameras was halted because of the cybersecurity intrusion, according to a lawyer in Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s office.

The Suffolk County Clerk’s office raised red flags about cybersecurity threats months before the attack in September that crashed the county government computer networks.

Suffolk County election officials say there was no connection between a cybersecurity attack this summer and a two-hour delay in processing ballots on Election Day.

Suffolk County legislators voted 14 to 4 to pass a $3.7 billion budget on Wednesday.