The former IT commissioner for the Suffolk County Clerk’s department did not alert county officials that the computer network in the clerk’s office was responding to a “radical malware attack” until eight hours after he was alerted, the Press has learned.
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) sent an email at 3 a.m. on Sept. 8, 2022 to the clerk’s then-IT commissioner Peter Schlussler alerting him to the attack, but Schlussler did not share that information with Suffolk IT leaders outside of his office until after 11 a.m., according to a CIS report that the Press exclusively reviewed and has not previously been made public.
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Source: MSN News