Digital Government
White House Wants to Give Agencies New Pot of Money to Upgrade Legacy IT
The $3.1 billion revolving fund would be situated at the General Services Administration.
Cybersecurity
White House wants $19B for cyber in FY 2017
The Obama administration's proposed Cybersecurity National Action Plan for FY2017 includes $3.1B for IT modernization and a new federal chief information security officer.
Cybersecurity
White House plots privacy updates for 2016
OMB's privacy adviser hopes to advance on a number of documents, guidance and councils to bolster privacy efforts before a new administration takes office.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Doxx Fraternal Order of Police, Exploit Alibaba’s Cloud, and Bop TaxSlayer
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
Attackers Doxx the Biggest U.S. Police Union
Government (U.S.) // Nonprofit // United States
Cybersecurity
ID Thieves Exploit Alibaba's Cloud to Speed Hack Attack
Web Services // Retailer // China
Cybersecurity
Contracting Docs: OPM Seeks to Tighten IT Security of Background Investigation Companies
OPM first inserted updated IT security clauses into existing contracts in April.
Cybersecurity
McCain exhorts Silicon Valley to play ball on 'going dark' issue
In a Feb. 5 op-ed, the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman called industry executives' objections to weakening encryption "ideologically motivated and profit-driven, though not without merit."
Cybersecurity
New bill seeks to add agility to electronic warfare development
Two senators are calling for more funding flexibility for the Pentagon's electronic warfare programs.
Cybersecurity
Medicaid ID Theft in Louisiana Claims 13,000 Victims
Government (U.S.) // Healthcare and Public Health // Louisiana , United States
Cybersecurity
OPM Head Pledges to Help Resolve Mystery Over Who Spotted the Big Breach
OPM has maintained that agency employees uncovered the intrusion last spring while fortifying the agency's IT environment.
Cybersecurity
DHS plans expanded social media checks on Syrian refugees
Members of Congress are looking to DHS for a more complete regime of social media background checks on Syrian refugees looking to enter the U.S.
Cybersecurity
The Former Federal Employee Who Tried to Launch a Cyberattack on Nuclear Scientists
He sent emails he thought were infected with viruses to Energy Department employees involved in developing nuclear weapons.
Cybersecurity
Immigration agency adds new deputy CIO job
The U.S. Customs and Immigration Services created new deputy CIO slot to help balance everyday IT operations and burgeoning DevOps, agile and cloud activities.
Cybersecurity
Oversight Committee Chair Subpoenas OPM Director for Hack Documents
At a Jan. 7 Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, grilled OPM officials about binders' worth of redacted papers.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon IG to audit cyber readiness
The audit will gauge how well agencies have corrected vulnerabilities identified by Command Cyber Readiness Inspections.
Cybersecurity
Could a More Secure Online Browser Protect Background Check Hack Victims?
Richard “Hollis” Helms, a 45-year-veteran of the intelligence community, has a tool he says might stem the potential bleeding of national secrets.
Cybersecurity
Former DOE employee pleads guilty to attempted spear-phishing
Charles Harvey Eccleston, who was fired by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2010, offered to sell a list of 5,000 email addresses of purported NRC employees to undercover FBI agents posing as representatives of a foreign government, the DOJ statement said.
Cybersecurity