Ransom! European Commission (*.europa.eu) (MAR-2026) The European Commission (europa.eu) is claimed to have been breached by the ShinyHunters threat actor, with over 350 GB+ of data compromised, including mail server and database dumps, confidential documents, contracts, and other sensitive material. The claim notes an uncompressed size of 350GB+ (uncompressed), updated 28 Mar 2026, and a SHA256 hash of 697c5cfbc64fa5cfbe3dd59a5cb4a2ee10ade8c53ef4c36f3ab3c7e1e35ff66e. #EuropeanUnion

The European Commission suffered a data breach by ShinyHunters, exposing 350GB+ of sensitive info including mail servers, databases, and confidential contracts. Incident reported March 2026. #EuropeanUnion #DataLeak #PublicSector

Ransom! meridenct.gov (MAR-2026) A ransomware claim alleges meridenct.gov, the City of Meriden in Connecticut, was targeted by threat actor incransom, potentially disrupting government services and public resources managed by Meriden 2020. Meriden 2020 provides a broad range of government, business, recreational, educational, and transportation resources for residents and visitors of Meriden, CT, with about 200 employees and $23 million in revenue #UnitedStates

Meriden, CT government targeted by ransomware actor incransom, affecting services managed by Meriden 2020. The incident impacts public, business, recreational, and transportation resources. #RansomwareAttack #PublicSector #UnitedStates

Advancing the defense system lifecycle with digital engineering on AWS AWS provides infrastructure that enables mission and program teams to build and manage their own digital engineering environments with secure, scalable computing resources and tools. This resource supplier relationship delivers value through cost efficiency, simplified management, reliable failover, and streamlined infrastructure operations. In this post, we provide a detailed walkthrough for building a secure and scalable digital engineering environment on AWS.

📰 New article by Jenifer Wang, Todd Balazs, NagaBharathi Challa

Advancing the defense system lifecycle with digital engineering on AWS

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A Conversation with Denys Nazarenko, Advisor to Kyiv's CIO Edition #153 Having long-been the showcase for city-level digital transformation under duress, Kyiv Digital shares the five principles that have been key to the city's success...

Most systems work when conditions are stable. The real test is whether institutional arrangements hold when they are not.

In practice, #Resilience depends less on capability than on how responsibility and coordination are structured.

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Student attentiveness and engagement analysis in live classrooms with generative AI Learn how student attentiveness and engagement analysis in live classrooms has been addressed with generative AI.

📰 New article by Neha Jha, Irshad Chohan

Student attentiveness and engagement analysis in live classrooms with generative AI

#AWS #PublicSector

Factory Furniture have just published their Public Realm Timber Performance Report for 2026. For public organisations who want public assets to last and want to report on whole-life carbon performance, this is useful information. 

#carbon #publicsector #streetfurniture

How Sphero brings safe, impactful AI to K12 classrooms with Amazon Bedrock In this blog, learn how Sphero, a company that creates programmable robots for K12 education, built a generative AI coding assistant into its Sphero Edu app using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to solve that problem.

📰 New article by Jackson Platt

How Sphero brings safe, impactful AI to K12 classrooms with Amazon Bedrock

#AWS #PublicSector

🇬🇧Digital sovereignty is becoming a much bigger issue in the UK. What happens when critical public services rely on infrastructure that sits under another country’s laws & political decisions?
🔗 www.register-dynamics.co.uk/...

#DigitalSovereignty #PublicSector #CyberSecurity

Building an identity-verified remote assessment platform on AWS Universities across the UK conduct tens of thousands of online interviews and exams each year. During a single admissions intake, over 20,000 video interviews were recorded for international applicants, with 1.3% of sessions showing confirmed fraud, including 0.15% involving deepfakes. A survey by the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) found that 2% of students [...]

📰 New article by Mohammed Reda

Building an identity-verified remote assessment platform on AWS

#AWS #PublicSector

Hiring persons with disabilities and support needs in public sector organizations: Reflection guide on staffing practices The staffing processes and structures of public sector organizations can act as a barrier to hiring persons with disabilities, particularly those with more support needs. The staffing processes and st...

Public sector hiring processes can limit access for persons with disabilities.
This guide presents practical ways to adapt staffing across recruitment, onboarding, and performance management. Views reflect the author's analysis.

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#PublicSector #InclusiveHiring

Building self-recovering systems against technology and business risk with Amazon Bedrock production resilience Your generative AI production workloads can route around failures automatically. As foundation models (FMs) converge in quality, Amazon Bedrock gives you access to multiple leading models through a single API, so you can build systems that recover from throttling and capacity limits without human intervention. They’re self-healing by design. The reliability patterns behind this are [...]

📰 New article by David Thrash, Gabriel Fuentes

Building self-recovering systems against technology and business risk with Amazon Bedrock production resilience

#AWS #PublicSector

#PublicationAlert My lovely colleagues from @pubgovman.bsky.social, @AngelaSamuel and @jurgenwillems.bsky.social , have just #published a new #researcharticle! Do #citizens hold the #publicsector more #accountable for #failures in #crosssectoral #collaborations? Read on below to find out more!

How Servizo Galego de Saúde accelerates clinical trials with AWS Read this post to learn about Innovatrial, a next-generation digital offering built by Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS) on Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) by NTT DATA in collaboration with AWS. This solution radically transforms how clinical trials are managed, connecting data, people, and processes in a unified environment that accelerates scientific evidence generation.

📰 New article by Isabel Vara, Antonio García Parada, Mariana Melo Oliveira, Martín Domínguez

How Servizo Galego de Saúde accelerates clinical trials with AWS

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Belgium’s cloud strategy transforms tax compliance This is a guest post from the Belgian Ministry of Finance, AWS customer The Belgian Ministry of Finance has successfully deployed a cost-effective, real-time digital tax monitoring system using Amazon Web Services (AWS). The system helps fight fraud and is expected to bring an estimated €156 million additional annual value-added tax (VAT) returns. The Belgian [...]

📰 New article by AWS Public Sector Blog Team

Belgium’s cloud strategy transforms tax compliance

#AWS #PublicSector

moves forward because of you. 💬✨ (4/4) #GenderEquityNYC #YourVoiceMatters #IGEPS #JohnJayCollege #NYCCommissionOnGenderEquity #GenderEquity #EquityAndInclusion #EquityInAction #PublicService #PublicSector #PublicAdministration #CivicEngagement #CommunityVoices #StudentEngagement #WomenInLeadership

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At #ASPA2026! @ctgualbany.bsky.social & @rockefellercollege.bsky.social's @milagasco.bsky.social sharing research in sessions on Women’s Voices in Public Service; #AI Accountability & #PublicSector Ethics; AI in #Ethics, #CitizenEngagement & Collaboration; & Governing AI aspanet.org/Conference20...

The Red-State War Against Blue Cities — The Nation St. Louis has a Missouri problem. But like many other Democratic cities in Republican states, it can fight back by expanding.

💀🔴🔵🔴💀 #bluecities in #redstates
“Destroy the #publicsector to increase #capitalflight. This is the game across #Colorado, #Missouri, #Tennessee, and #Georgia...our economy is #K-shaped...not designed for the middle or lower class; it is designed to service the wealthy..."

Foster City Ransomware Attack Disrupts Non-Emergency Municipal Operations A recent Foster City ransomware attack caused a major city services disruption, impacting routine administrative functions but not critical infrastructure.

Full story:
www.technadu.com/foster-city-...

Do you think local governments are prepared for modern ransomware threats? Let us know your thoughts.
#CyberSecurity #Ransomware #PublicSector #DataSecurity #InfoSec

Rahmenvertrag zwischen d.velop AG und Hochschulen NRW ebnet Weg für digitale Zukunft

#Compliance @d_velop #Digitalisierung #Dokumentenmanagement #Hochschulsektor #NordrheinWestfalen #PublicSector

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Der AI Act ist kein Innovationsstopper, sondern das Betriebssystem für Vertrauen. Wer das Fundament ignoriert, scheitert an der Umsetzung. ⚖️🇪🇺 #AIAct #PublicSector #TechFacts

Public sector security cannot scale if the human layer is left exposed.

Join us, sponsor KnowBe4, and expert Erich Kron tomorrow for this FREE webcast on reducing risk, simplifying compliance and scaling security effectively.

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#PublicSector #CyberResilience

We’re partnering with Lastwall to enable our #PublicSector customers with its IDCommand Suite, bringing unified #ZeroTurst and quantum-ready identity protection to our portfolio. Read our latest news release for partnership details: https://carah.io/LastwallPR

Cybercriminals scale up, government sector hit hardest - Help Net Security Government agencies faced the highest volume of cyberattack campaigns in 2025, according to new findings from HPE Threat Labs.

Cybercriminals scale up, government sector hit hardest

📖 Read more: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/18/g...

#cybersecurity #cybersecuritynews #publicsector #cybercrime

Ransom! Fannin CAD (MAR-2026) The Fannin CAD in the United States was targeted by the ransomware threat actor Exitium. Approximately 400 GB of data was exfiltrated, per the ZoomInfo reference. #UnitedStates

Exitium ransomware group targeted Fannin CAD in the US, exfiltrating approximately 400 GB of data. This breach impacts the public sector with significant data loss reported. #RansomwareAttack #PublicSector #UnitedStates

Automate AWS GovCloud (US) account creation using AWS Organizations APIs AWS GovCloud (US) is an innovative cloud solution that includes a pair of AWS Regions providing a cloud computing environment designed specifically for government agencies, contractors, and organizations that handle sensitive, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)-controlled data and require US citizenship or entity status. AWS GovCloud (US) regions exist as a separate partition from [...]

📰 New article by Brian Dao, Chris Forsyth

Automate AWS GovCloud (US) account creation using AWS Organizations APIs

#AWS #PublicSector

We were proud to participate in the 2026 #GovRAMP Symposium in partnership with Billington State and Local CyberSecurity Summit in Washington, D.C. The event convened leaders across Federal, State and Local Government to discuss #cybersecurity modernization and strengthening #PublicSector resilience

Purdue University democratizes geospatial data through AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program Research depends on access to vast amounts of data and the right tools to analyze it, but the sheer scale of geospatial information produced by researchers can create significant barriers to cross-disciplinary collaboration. Addressing this challenge is the mission of Purdue University’s Data to Science Initiative (D2S). With this program, researchers across disciplines can share [...]

📰 New article by David Conklin, Chris Stoner, Brian DeKemper

Purdue University democratizes geospatial data through AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program

#AWS #PublicSector

Introducing the AWS Australian public sector user guide for building responsible AI systems Australian public sector agencies can now harness AI’s transformative potential while maintaining ethical, transparent, and compliant systems with new practical guidance from Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is excited to announce that the AWS Australian Public Sector User Guide: Building Responsible AI systems with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI is now available through AWS [...]

📰 New article by Cain Hopwood, Emma Arrigo, Pauline Kelly

Introducing the AWS Australian public sector user guide for building responsible AI systems

#AWS #PublicSector

Institutions today need intelligence partners who understand scale and impact. Supporting such ecosystems is a responsibility we value.
#InstitutionalGrowth #PublicSector #ImpactLeadership #NexaraSoft #www.nexarasoft.in

Friends do let friends become friends of BLS, so apply!

#publicsector #jobs #nationalstatistics #nso #RStats