Cybersecurity
Intel Firm Links Ukraine Energy Debt With Potential Cyber Assault
Recorded Future drilled into a wide range of Web data to create a speculative timeline of potential network attacks.
Science & Tech
White House Looks Toward a Big Data Future
The Obama administration wades into the growing debate on big data. By Patrick Tucker
Digital Government
Congress to Feds: You're On the Hook for Spending Transparency
The DATA Act won’t live up to its potential if the executive branch doesn't live up to its responsibilities, lawmakers say.
Cybersecurity
Why the U.S. Government Is Extra Worried About the Huge Internet Explorer Bug
Old computers are much more vulnerable.
Modernization
Facebook’s Mobile User Base Has Crossed the 1 Billion Threshold
Roughly 341 million people only use their mobile device to access Facebook.
Digital Government
New Website Helps Vets Find Jobs, Employers Search Resumes
Employment center includes a “military skills translator” to help veterans create more effective resumes.
Emerging Tech
How Government Data Could Make College Cheaper
The Education Department is asking developers how they could use APIs to make college a better value for students.
Modernization
Feds to Facebook: Hands Off WhatsApp Data
FTC warns the social-media titan to uphold the privacy promises made to users of the mobile-chat app.
Ideas
How Big Data Could Help Law Enforcement Catch Bulk Cash Smugglers
We currently intercept less than 1 percent of the billions smuggled across our southern border every year.
Cybersecurity
DHS Quietly Delivers Hacker Footprints to Industry
A little-known firewall-protected website exchanges sensitive cyber intel between companies and agencies.
Ideas
U.S. Cloud Services Companies Are Paying Dearly for NSA Leaks
The agency could consider economic impacts of its practices.
Digital Government
NSA 'Time Machine' Includes Spying on Americans' Phone Conversations
Program collects '100 percent' of an unnamed foreign country’s calls, including content from Americans abroad.
Digital Government
Administration Calls for Program to Continously Probe Personnel
After Navy Yard Shooting, officials want to connect computer systems used for issuing security clearances and ID cards.
Modernization
Cloud Security Frees Up NOAA's Workforce
Centralizing networks lets human eyes cover more than 1 billion cyber transactions a day for signs of hacking.
Digital Government
Bill Gates: 'The Idea That Innovation Is Slowing Down Is ... Stupid'
New ideas are coming at "a scarily fast pace," he says.
Modernization
To Turn the World Into a Web Page, Mobile Browsers Need to Improve Figuring Out Locations
Geographic certitude is at the core of everything an AR browser does.
Digital Government
The Government Already Has the Technology to Monitor Cleared Employees
A few coding tweaks are all that's needed to stop the next Snowden, former official says.
Digital Government
NSA Officials Have 'Privacy in Their Veins,' Agency's New Privacy Chief Says
Introducing Rebecca Richards, NSA's first chief privacy and civil-liberties officer.
Emerging Tech
Google Fears FCC's New Internet Powers
The Web giant's lobbyists are quietly fretting about a recent court ruling.
Digital Government