Lawmakers file bills to create Texas Cyber Command

MATAGORDA COUNTY, Texas (Nexstar) -- Matagorda County Judge Bobby Seiferman is used to handling emergencies as his county sits in hurricane alley, but he and his colleagues faced a different type of emergency at the beginning of 2025."Everything was knocked out," Seiferman explained. "So the county clerk was down. You couldn't file deeds -- you couldn't close on any property." His county of a little more than 36,000 people was hit by a cyberattack.It started when an employee in the county jail c