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Boil water notice for East Olean after water main break

By JIM ECKSTROM jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com

August 18, 2026

OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...

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Cyberattack forces NY ethics agency’s systems offline

Feb 27, 2022

ALBANY (AP) — New York's ethics commission shut down its online filing system Saturday as authorities investigate a “deliberate malicious cyberattack....

Russian hackers still targeting tech despite Biden sanctions

Jamie Tarabay Bloomberg News (TNS)

Oct 25, 2021

The hackers behind the notorious SolarWinds cyberattack are engaged in a fresh campaign to compromise global networks by targeting the tech supply cha...

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Can Russia’s Putin shift into legacy rethink?

MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service

Jun 22, 2021

Let’s start our instant analysis of this week’s Biden-Putin summit not with the big-news headline, but the bottom line: The instant analysis of this G...

Local Columnists, Nation World

Russian cyberattack no small thing

JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service

Dec 28, 2020

This is the 21st century, so far a frightening age, and we’ve just had an act of modernistic war, a hacking attack through which Russia now knows gobs...

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Council OKs cyberattack insurance bump after April incident

BOB CLARK Olean Times Herald

Sep 24, 2020

OLEAN — After a crippling cyberattack earlier this year, city officials will take out a larger insurance policy to cover future incidents. On Tuesday,...

Commentary, Local Columnists, New York

Cybersecurity a local issue

TRACY MITRANO, Special to the Olean Times Herald

Jun 23, 2019

Cyberwarfare poses a serious threat to our national security and to the integrity of our elections, but it is also a critical economic, business and h...

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St. Bonaventure University opens cybersecurity center

TOM DINKI, Olean Times Herald

Apr 25, 2018

ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure University students now have a space to research cybersecurity and even protect local businesses from cyberattacks. ...