Cybersecurity
CTIIC chief: We're up and running
The nascent Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center provides a mechanism for attributing cyber breaches to threat actors.
Modernization
Update Your Apple Devices Now to Fix Terrifying Security Bug
Hackers could grab your passwords just by sending you an infected iMessage.
Cybersecurity
A $5.8B argument for better IT management
IT COST Commission releases new taxonomy and metrics for managing IT spend, and says big agency savings can result from better data.
Cybersecurity
The Fight Over Consumer Encryption Moves Into Strange New Phase
Law enforcement officials say it’s on the tech world and privacy advocates to prove a backdoor would undermine data security.
Cybersecurity
NASA taps new IT security leader
NASA has selected Jeanette Hanna-Ruiz as its new chief information security officer.
Cybersecurity
Turkish hackers claim credit for Library of Congress attack
The attack on several congressional websites comes in the wake of a failed coup in Turkey -- an uprising some Turkish leaders have blamed in part on the U.S. government.
Cybersecurity
Two years after Heartbleed, an improved OpenSSL aims for government approval
A much-improved version of the cryptographic building block lacks FIPS 140-2 validation, but SafeLogic is stepping in to change that.
Cybersecurity
House Committee Chair Opens Inquiry Into Foreigners’ Access to OPM Data
Some OPM contractors may have handed "foreign governments direct access to data long before the recent reported breaches," according to Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas.
Cybersecurity
VA Gets New CISO from NASA
Senior IT manager Roopangi Kadakia is scheduled to start July 24.
Cybersecurity
DARPA Awards New Contract for Behavioral Cyberattacks Detection
Galois scored a $6 million contract with the Pentagon’s R&D group.
Digital Government
A New CISO for NASA
Jeanette Hanna-Ruiz will begin effective Aug. 8 after being selected by NASA CIO Renee Wynn.
Digital Government
Is Pentagon’s Push to a Joint Information Environment in Trouble?
An audit suggests the modernization effort lacks a management plan.
Cybersecurity
VA picks NASA executive for CISO slot
Senior NASA IT manager Roopangi Kadakia will take over the top IT security job at the Department of Veterans Affairs, FCW has learned.
Cybersecurity
DHS asks industry about cyberthreats to mobility
The Science and Technology Directorate at DHS is tapping industry for clues to the mobile cyberthreat landscape.
Digital Government
Defense Intelligence Agency Is Scoping Out Social Media Background Checkers
The effort is part of a shift away from screening intelligence and military staff every five years, as is current practice.
Cybersecurity
Library of Congress wracked by DNS attack
Sites hosted by the Library of Congress, including Congress.gov, have been down intermittently since a July 17 attack.
Cybersecurity
Tighe takes over naval intel, info warfare
A highly sensitive Navy post is going to a senior officer who -- unlike her predecessor -- brings an active security clearance.
Cybersecurity
How military strategy can improve cyber response
Cyberattacks will occur. Preparation is the key -- and civilian agencies could take a cue from the military’s sustained readiness model.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Target Sports Training Clinic, N.C. State; Alabama and Oklahoma Accidentally Leak Security-Sensitive Data
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity