Cybersecurity
Senate panel skeptical about U.S.-China cyber accord
Intel and defense chiefs defend the administration's cyber deal with China, but key lawmakers are skeptical.
Cybersecurity
Time for U.S. to gut 'malware kingpins'
Experts say the military needs to think in revolutionary terms about cyber warfare and adopt preemptive tactics -- but not act unilaterally.
Cybersecurity
Government Losing Your Personal Information? Keep It To Yourself, Reps Say.
A bill introduced this month would truncate Social Security numbers on common tax forms.
Cybersecurity
Shutdown guide, CTO study, US/UK cyber ties and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon Hires Investigators to Find Hacked Feds
A tool for determining why mail notifications are returned must be running by Oct. 9 and a website for individuals to check if they're affected by the breach must be running by Nov. 17.
Cybersecurity
For NGA, key to open source might be embracing uncertainty
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has made a point of hitching its operations to the boom in open source data. The next step could be philosophical -- a willingness to accept uncertainty.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Stay at Hilton & Trick Lunch Lady into Exposing Students, While Workers Lose Child Mental Health Records
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
Ban encryption? Don't believe the hype
Efforts to weaken encryption are misguided and will do nothing to protect individuals or national security.
Digital Government
ACLU Argues for Right to Sue NSA for “Upstream” Surveillance
After getting rebuffed in 2013, privacy lawyers are trying again to convince a federal court to hear its argument that the government’s tapping of the Internet backbone is unconstitutional.
Digital Government
Can the U.S. Trust China to Stop Stealing Business Secrets?
Obama threatened sanctions, but proving responsibility for a cyberattack will be difficult.
Cybersecurity
School Nutrition Staffer Leaked Student SSNs to a Hacker
Education // Kentucky, United States
Cybersecurity
Canadian Engineer Association Delivers Member Records to Bad Folks
Nonprofit // Canada
Cybersecurity
President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping Announce Cybersecurity Agreement
The two leaders spoke at a joint press conference Friday afternoon.
Cybersecurity
Unencrypted Hard Drive Containing 3.4M Child Services Records Goes Missing
Education // Government (Foreign) // Healthcare and Public Health // Canada
Cybersecurity
U.S., China find some common cyber ground
No deal was reached on major cybersecurity issues, but the two nations established a formal structure to keep on talking.
Cybersecurity
NSA director fears shutdown effect on employee morale
Even the prospect of another government shutdown has the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command worried that more of his workforce will decamp for the private sector.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon Small Biz Office Didn’t Know About Cyber Training
Even as the Pentagon was imposing data breach regulations on the $55.5 billion sector, the office essentially had other priorities than advocating information security awareness.
Cybersecurity
Cyber problems at HealthCare.gov, cyber sharing at the Pentagon and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity