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Freestone County commissioners create cyber response committee after jail phishing incident
Summary
The commissioners approved forming a small committee to advise whether to escalate reported cybersecurity incidents after an email-based attack affected the jail and county offices; members and possible investigation costs were discussed.
Freestone County commissioners approved a motion to form a cyber incident response committee after a recent email-based intrusion that affected the county jail and touched county offices.
County officials said the incident began with a legitimate-looking email and an embedded URL that, when activated, propagated messages to roughly 200 county email addresses and reached the county clerk and district clerk offices. The…
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