{"id":263498,"date":"2026-06-03T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/bowman-city-commission-confronts-local-cybersecurity-weaknesses-the-dickinson-press\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:45:08","slug":"bowman-city-commission-confronts-local-cybersecurity-weaknesses-the-dickinson-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/bowman-city-commission-confronts-local-cybersecurity-weaknesses-the-dickinson-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowman City Commission confronts local cybersecurity weaknesses &#8211; The Dickinson Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedickinsonpress.com\/news\/local\/bowman-city-commission-confronts-local-cybersecurity-weaknesses\">Bowman City Commission confronts local cybersecurity weaknesses &#8211; The Dickinson Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedickinsonpress.com\/news\/local\/bowman-city-commission-confronts-local-cybersecurity-weaknesses\">https:\/\/www.thedickinsonpress.com\/news\/local\/bowman-city-commission-confronts-local-cybersecurity-weaknesses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 19:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thedickinsonpress.com\">www.thedickinsonpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DICKINSON \u2014 The Bowman City Commission held a regular meeting on Tuesday, June 2, where they confronted the city\u2019s cybersecurity weaknesses and watched a presentation from CyberNet Security about what they can do to be safer.<\/p>\n<p>The city commission made decisions on a variety of topics during their meeting such as addressing an application for a zone change, an event request and more. However, the most pressing issue brought before the commission was the cyberattack the Bowman Parks &#038; Recreation faced.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Peterson, the director of the Bowman Parks &#038; Recreation, told the commission about how the recent cyberattack left every file the department had encrypted and inaccessible. The attack had even affected any backup files the department had that were in thumb drives plugged into devices. While there was a message from the attacker with contact information about how to access the files again, Peterson was able to decrypt the files by taking the issue to an expert in Bismarck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t take the files\u2026 so we got lucky in that regard,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cWe had no idea what they wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>        John Nagel, president of CyberNet Security, gave a presentation over Zoom discussing services to improve the City of Bowman\u2019s cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Dorvall Bedford \/ The Dickinson Press<\/p>\n<p>Peterson explained to the commission that there several measures the Bowman Parks &#038; Recreation could take to be safer from attacks. One of the main ways was having better passwords \u2014 Peterson described the department\u2019s passwords as being weak and incorporating&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedickinsonpress.com\/news\/local\/bowman-city-commission-confronts-local-cybersecurity-weaknesses\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowman City Commission confronts local cybersecurity weaknesses &#8211; The Dickinson Press https:\/\/www.thedickinsonpress.com\/news\/local\/bowman-city-commission-confronts-local-cybersecurity-weaknesses Publish Date: 2026-06-03&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.forumcomm.com\/dims4\/default\/7bea19b\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3899x2599+0+0\/resize\/1599x1066!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F5e%2F6c%2F9e4ac4114a6eac0f0e3d570bb44c%2Fbowman-city-commission-6-3-2026.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-263498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263498"}],"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=263498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263502,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263498\/revisions\/263502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}