Cybersecurity
Senators Want Dumber Tech For Energy Grid Cybersecurity
A bill to study retro approaches to preventing and mitigating the effects of cyberattacks is advancing in the Senate.
Ideas
To Lighten Workloads, There’s No Better Time to Orchestrate Than Now
As agencies look to modernize, they can take the opportunity to make sure all their software is working together.
Cybersecurity
Ransomware Attacks Decline But Number of Strains Doubled, Researchers Found
About half of victims who ponied up the ransom never got their data back.
Cybersecurity
White House hints at new cyber policies
Changes sparked by the cybersecurity executive order are on the horizon, a top administration official said.
Cybersecurity
It Takes More Than Tech Skills To Be a Strong Cyber Leader
A White House cyber policy official and a cybersecurity professor both encourage students to broaden their studies beyond technology and coding.
Cybersecurity
Google Will Soon Let You Easily Download All of Your Chrome Passwords
Get your password game right.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers lose patience with NBIB over clearance backlog
Senators expressed deep frustration about the government's lack of progress reducing the backlog of 700,000 pending security clearance requests, with some threatening to overhaul the process completely.
Artificial Intelligence
This is Why the IARPA Director Doesn’t Worry About Self-Aware Artificial Intelligence
Poorly engineered artificial intelligence is more likely to keep Jason Matheny up at night than a program becoming sentient.
Cybersecurity
OPM’s Post-Breach Contracting Efforts Fall Short Again, IG Says
The way OPM contracted for credit monitoring services has come under scrutiny.
Cybersecurity
Air Force plans to convert IT staff into cyber force
The Air Force hopes to solve the cyber worker shortage by redefining traditional IT jobs, starting at seven bases.
Cybersecurity
Senators press DNI on Russian interference, cyber
Lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee continue to press the administration for a cyber warfare doctrine and action on Russian election interference.
Cybersecurity
Federal networks susceptible to router hacks, DHS says
A newly released report and binding operational directive dating back to 2016 reveals alarm from DHS about network infrastructure security.
Cybersecurity
On Offer: An Integrated Dashboard for Cyber Warfare
Lockheed previews its response to a Pentagon quest for a tool to coordinate cyber effects in the land, air, sea and space domains.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Figured Out a Way to Demand Ransom Without Sending Email
These hackers are killing two birds with one stone.
Cybersecurity
White House names deputy undersecretary for DOD R&E
Lisa Porter, the executive vice president of CIA venture arm In-Q-Tel and director of IQT Labs, would help run the Pentagon's newly reorganized IT and R&D operations.
Ideas
Here's a Discovery That Could Lead Us To Lightsabers
A new form of light could lead to breakthroughs in quantum computing ... and maybe lightsabers.
Cybersecurity
CBP closes in on completing 17-year multibillion IT project
Customs and Border Protection is nearing the end of development of one of the most complex IT systems in the federal government.
Cybersecurity
CERTs warn on botnets, kernel bugs
Separate cybersecurity alerts from DHS indicate new botnet attack vectors and updates the list of industrial control system vendors facing Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.
Cybersecurity
Why the Energy Department needs a cyber program
The DOE wants $96 million in fiscal 2019 to fund a cybersecurity office to help manage threats facing the energy grid.
Cybersecurity