Cybersecurity
A Creepy Search Engine Could Be Watching You Right Now Through Your Unsecure Webcam
Time to get a password.
Cybersecurity
Oversight Lawmakers Probe Extent of Juniper Hack Across Federal Government
Last month, the company announced the discovery of unauthorized code in its technology.
Digital Government
Here’s How the Pentagon Plans to Protect Security Clearance Data
The new IT systems storing background investigation forms on millions of federal employees and contractors will use end-to-end encryption.
Cybersecurity
Justice seeking access to encrypted communications
Law enforcement agencies remain concerned that strong encryption of everyday electronic communications is hampering criminal investigations and prosecutions, a top Justice official said.
Cybersecurity
TurboTax, H&R Block and TaxAct all Use This Security Feature. Why Doesn’t the IRS?
The Internal Revenue Service is not keeping pace with modern hacking, according to agency watchdogs.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Defraud TaxAct Customers, Snoop into U-Va. Personnel Data, and Breach Brigham and Women's Hospital
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
ID Thieves Access TaxAct Customers' Personal and Financial Data
Financial Services // Technology
Cybersecurity
Health Information on Patients at Brigham’s Hospitals Now Compromised
Healthcare and Public Health
Cybersecurity
Contractor Seizes Employer’s Home Improvement Website; Pockets Money for Unfinished Business
Manufacturing // Pennsylvania, United States
Cybersecurity
Sham Email Campaign Exposes Employee Data at University of Virginia
Education // Virginia, United States
Cybersecurity
After OPM Hack, Pentagon to Store and Secure Sensitive Security Clearance Docs
The new office responsible for conducting background investigations will have its IT systems “designed, built, secured and operated” by the Defense Department.
Cybersecurity
White House announces new agency to handle federal background checks
OPM will house the new National Background Investigations Bureau, but the new agency's IT and cybersecurity work will be handled by the Defense Department.
Cybersecurity
Passwords are a thing of the past
Today’s new cyber world requires multifactor authentication.
Cybersecurity
ACT-IAC survey offers new cybersecurity ideas
The organization has gathered 200 ideas on securing government networks and managing cybersecurity policy and operations.
Cybersecurity
NSA Director: Expect More Hacks As Big As the OPM Heist
To protect itself, the Defense Department is itemizing the military's stored away files and re-examining how they are secured, NSA and Cyber Command leader and Adm. Mike Rogers said.
Cybersecurity
OPM adds new cyber education program for feds and families
The federal government is looking to fill its own cybersecurity needs by offering discounted online degree programs.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon delays cyber contracting requirements
The two-year delay will give contractors time to adapt to a shifting landscape in cybersecurity requirements that has been characterized as a maze of piecemeal regulations.
Cybersecurity
DHS Secretary Plans to Make ‘Tangible Recruitments’ in Cyber
Jeh Johnson also said DHS wants “to encourage the tech sector to partner with Muslim communities” to provide a “countermessage to the message of the Islamic State.”
Digital Government
Frustrated by Congress, Privacy Advocates Shift Fight to the States
State lawmakers recently announced bills to limit police surveillance and protect the privacy of students and employees.
Cybersecurity