Richard Honen of Phillips Lyle, right, accepts the JeffreyA. Lawrence Lifetime Contributor award from Andrew Kennedy, president and CEO of Center for Economic Growth during CEG’s annual awards luncheon at the Desmond Hotel on Thursday, June 23, 2016 in Colonie, N.Y. Kennedy says the Capital Region’s biotech sector has promise.
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No more dropped calls: NYC subway to get cell service, WiFi
People peek out the train doors at the 86th Street station as one of the first trains pauses at the platform on the newly opened Second Ave. Subway line in New York on New Year’s Day. Almost all stations are now equipped with WiFi and cellular service.
States Re-Examine Cybersecurity After Vermont Utility Reports Alleged Russian Malware
The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on the Connecticut River as seen from the New Hampshire side of the river. Jan. 5, 2004 The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on the Connecticut River as seen from the New Hampshire side of the river.
States look closer at cybersecurity
Several states around the country on Saturday asked cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility’s laptop was found to contain malware that U.S. officials say is linked to Russian hackers. The Burlington Electric Department, one of Vermont’s two largest electric utilities, confirmed Friday that it had found on one of its laptops the malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, the name the U.S. government has given to malicious cyberactivity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services.
New subway line, awaited since the 1920s, is set to roll
In this April 12, 2007 file photo, a Metropolitan Transit Authority employee climbs the stairs to the street from the partly finished track of the 2nd Avenue subway prior to the ground breaking ceremony in New York. Construction first started 45 years ago, but New Yorkers’ long wait to take a subway under Manhattan’s far Upper East Side ends at noon Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, when a stretch of the new Second Avenue line is set to open to the public.
US states, leery of Russia malware, re-examine cybersecurity
Several states around the country on Saturday asked cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility’s laptop was found to contain malware U.S. officials say is linked to Russian hackers. The Burlington Electric Department, one of Vermont’s two largest electric utilities, confirmed Friday it had found on one of its laptops the malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, the name the U.S. government has given to malicious cyber activity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services.
States re-examine cybersecurity after alleged Russian hack
BURLINGTON, Vt. >> Several states around the country on Saturday are asking cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility’s laptop was found to contain malware that U.S. officials say is linked to Russian hackers.