"New Orleans Has Declared a State of Emergency After a Cyberattack"

New Orleans declared a state of emergency following the detection of a cyberattack on its networks. According to the city's head of IT, Kim LaGrue, shortly after the detection of suspicious activity in the city's networks, there was a sharp increase in attempted phishing and ransomware attacks. Once the IT team was sure that the city was being hit with a cyberattack, servers and computers were immediately shut down and a declaration of a state of emergency was filed by city authorities with the Civil District Court. Work is still being done to recover the data that was impacted by the attack. This article continues to discuss the cyberattack faced by New Orleans, how the city responded to this incident, other cities that have recently experienced such attacks, and why there has been an increase in the targeting of government authorities by cybercriminals. 

Technology Review reports "New Orleans Has Declared a State of Emergency After a Cyberattack"