Cybersecurity

Per Scholas, a technology training nonprofit that is bringing its courses to St. Louis, will offer free training at the Cortex Innovation Community for people of color and women interested in cybersecurity jobs.

The codes allow businesses to digitize menus or direct customers to payment sites, but scammers have used them to get personal information from people.

The federal government is offering grant money to help address the problem, but small towns fear they lack the tech knowhow and resources to defend their systems and are daunted by grant applications.

About 13,000 people were victims of government impersonation scams in the U.S. last year, at a cost of almost $110 million.

After personal information for thousands of educators in Missouri was shown to be vulnerable due to a website flaw, a Washington University professor sees this as an opportunity for the state to reevaluate its cybersecurity practices.

University of Missouri-St. Louis professor Shaji Khan helped the St. Louis Post-Dispatch report data breach on state system.

A recently revealed vulnerability on a state-run website has revived conversations about cybersecurity and whether the state is doing enough to protect sensitive data.

The ransomware group known as Hive has stolen confidential patient information from Sikeston-based Missouri Delta Medical Center, including Social Security numbers and medical information.

A ransomware attack that shut down several big beef plants is raising concerns about cybersecurity at food companies. Critics say industry consolidation makes the food supply chain more vulnerable.

The county government hopes to bolster its network security to prevent what happened to neighboring St. Clair County.