{"id":210725,"date":"2026-02-06T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/new-york-county-bolsters-cybersecurity-with-phishing-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:05:11","slug":"new-york-county-bolsters-cybersecurity-with-phishing-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/new-york-county-bolsters-cybersecurity-with-phishing-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"New York County Bolsters Cybersecurity With Phishing Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/new-york-county-bolsters-cybersecurity-with-phishing-policy\">New York County Bolsters Cybersecurity With Phishing Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/new-york-county-bolsters-cybersecurity-with-phishing-policy\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/new-york-county-bolsters-cybersecurity-with-phishing-policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-06 12:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    (TNS) \u2014 In the wake of a phishing incident that occurred in December that initially cost Warren County over $3.3 million, county supervisors are on a path to pass a thorough computer use policy for county employees that will touch on issues like phishing prevention and reporting. The new policy was prepared and approved by the Risk and Safety Committee, with the bulk of the work completed last fall before the phishing fraud case happened, county officials say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Phishing&#8221; is a cybercrime that targets individuals through emails that appear to be from a business associate, bank, internet service provider, employer, or local government. The goal is to retrieve sensitive data that a scammer can then use to open new bank accounts or invade existing accounts, ultimately transferring stolen funds before the victim becomes aware. A major aspect of the county&#8217;s new computer use policy will be to provide &#8220;guidelines and processes for the identification, prevention, and reporting of phishing scams, which will help to preserve the security of the County of Warren&#8217;s data and technology infrastructure,\u201d the policy states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope this policy will help transform not just at the county level, but at the municipal level \u2014 to get to the highest standard we can in what we know is a very dangerous world for our employees and our government operations,\u201d said Warren County attorney Larry Elmen.<\/p>\n<p><span data-bsp-pv=\"4f8e492c-6f2f-390e-bc61-f176d3a37ab9\"\/><span data-bsp-pv=\"0000019c-33e5-d8c0-a7fd-ffeff42a0000\"\/><br \/>The policy outlines email security measures to protect against phishing attacks, such as avoiding opening emails or attachments from unknown, suspicious or untrustworthy sources, and to verify all unexpected content from trusted sources through text or a call with that source prior to opening, the policy states.<\/p>\n<p>The policy also touches on issues like clickbait headlines, which can entice employees to click on a link to go to a certain malicious webpage, as well as emails that create a false sense of urgency or quick&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/new-york-county-bolsters-cybersecurity-with-phishing-policy\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York County Bolsters Cybersecurity With Phishing Policy https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/new-york-county-bolsters-cybersecurity-with-phishing-policy Publish Date: 2026-02-06 12:37:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/258f714\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3600x1750+0+309\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F80%2F71%2F9de0c5ac4a899dfec880b4a47c90%2Fshutterstock-2250507035.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[25,57],"class_list":["post-210725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-phishing","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210727,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210725\/revisions\/210727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}