Cybersecurity
Video: One Trick to Stay Secure While Online Shopping
Keep your credit card information protected.
Digital Government
Quiz: Are You The One Letting Hackers into Your Agency?
It's easier to accidentally provide hackers access to networks than you might think.
Cybersecurity
Cyber advice for Hill staffers
Congressional staffers have a lot of responsibility to protect their decentralized IT systems.
Digital Government
Survey: Federal IT Pros Favor Clinton Over Trump
But the agencies may be filling vacancies regardless of who wins.
Cybersecurity
CIA commits to the cloud
The CIA cloud project provided a reference model for other agencies looking for ways to bring their operational data into the cloud.
Cybersecurity
The creation of DHS
Creating DHS involved reorganizing agencies based on their technology resources and workforce expertise into a super-agency capable of mounting operations against terrorism.
Cybersecurity
Hackers storm DOD networks
In a 1996 information-sharing effort, then-CIA director John Deutch proposed working with DOD to create an Information Warfare Technology Center staffed with 1,000 people and located at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Md.
Cybersecurity
FCW @ 30
Since 1987, FCW has covered it all -- the major contracts, the disruptive technologies, the picayune scandals and the many, many people who make federal IT function. Here's a look back at six of the most significant stories.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Knock Security News Blog Offline, Steal 500M Yahoo Accounts and Use NSA Tools on Cisco Customers
DDoS attack gets massive and mega-breaches reach new heights.
Cybersecurity
7 Takeaways from GAO's Information Security Assessment
The federal government needs to fully implement its information security programs, GAO said.
Cybersecurity
Yahoo's Half-a-Billion Hack
The tech giant said personal data from at least 500 million accounts was stolen by a "state-sponsored actor.”
Cybersecurity
It Will Soon Be Legal to Hack Your Tesla (And Every Other Car) in the US
The modern automobile, say cybersecurity experts, is not a car with a computer in it. It’s a computer with four wheels and a motor.
Cybersecurity
U.S. Transportation Command outlines cyber strategy
TRANSCOM has issued a new strategic document that outlines guiding principles for addressing cyber threats.
Digital Government
House Oversight Votes to Hold Clinton Techie in Contempt
Bryan Pagliano, former tech specialist for Hillary Clinton, previously warned he would evoke his Fifth Amendment rights if he testified.
Cybersecurity
Your Personal Information Was Hacked. Now What?
The Federal Trade Commission released a new video to guide data-breach victims through what to do next.
Cybersecurity
Solving the federal IT workforce problem
Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) argues that potential answers to the federal government’s IT workforce gap lie in expanding youth programs and partnerships between public and private sectors.
Cybersecurity
New schedule for military EHR rollout is imminent
After missing a congressionally mandated deadline, the Defense Department is prepping a new schedule for the rollout of its electronic health record.
Cybersecurity