Cybersecurity
22 Amendments That Could Determine the Fate of Senate's Cyber Bill
These amendments will get a vote if and when CISA comes up after recess.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon Unveils New Rules Requiring Contractors to Disclose Data Breaches
Industry says the effort is at odds with a similar White House effort.
Cybersecurity
2 Easy Steps to Improve Privacy Policies
OK, they’re not so easy. But they would save us from the eternal amend-then-freak-out cycle
Cybersecurity
Pentagon Plans to Spend $132 Million on Credit Monitoring for DOD's OPM Hack Victims
The Office of Personnel Management is asking agencies to help share in the cost of offering identity-theft protection to hacked feds.
Cybersecurity
IARPA tries to predict the unpredictable
The agency is seeking information on methods for forecasting rare events and alternative ways of assessing such methods.
Cybersecurity
Video: Watch These Guys Hack an Electric Skateboard
How hackers could make you hang ten.
Cybersecurity
The Nation’s 24-Hour Cyber Watch Center Still Has Some Empty Seats
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center might have some communication challenges.
Cybersecurity
Labor CIO pushes back against critical IG report
Dawn Leaf defended the department's efforts to implement two-factor authentication and raised concerns about the 'completeness and accuracy' of the IG's findings.
Ideas
With a Major Cybersecurity Job Shortage, We Must Act Like We Are at War
The U.S. needs much more than the recent $14 billion cybersecurity budget increase to keep up with the bad guys.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Taint Wine Payments, Malign 8 Million Mums, and Pinch Fred’s Super Dollar Stores
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
Thousands of Women’s Email Accounts Hacked at University of Rhode Island
Education // Rhode Island, United States
Digital Government
Bill Would Require Agencies to Keep Track of ‘Critical’ Cyber Workforce Shortages
The Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Assessment Act would require agencies to use a cyber-jobs framework developed by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education.
Cybersecurity
Web.com Customers: Check Your Credit Card Statements
Web Services // Florida, United States
Cybersecurity
The IRS Spent $2.7 Million on a Tool That Shelled Out $39 Million to Crooks
The ROI could fall deeper into the red, based on revelations about a breach of the online service.
Cybersecurity
Exclusive: The OPM breach details you haven't seen
An official timeline of the Office of Personnel Management breach obtained by FCW pinpoints the hackers’ calibrated extraction of data, and the government's step-by-step response.
Cybersecurity
Widespread Use of Yammer Social Network at VA Ran Afoul of Agency Rules, Watchdog Says
Department CIO implicated in a probe of unapproved and insecure uses of the social network’s free version.
Cybersecurity
Is the Ashley Madison Hack Really a National Security Risk?
Thousands of the site’s affair-seeking users registered from dot-mil and dot-gov domains — at least ostensibly.
Cybersecurity
House Oversight Chief Probes OPM Hack Timeline
Rep. Jason Chaffetz is zeroing in on a March 2014 cyberintrusion at the agency, during which hackers made off with what amounted to a blueprint of OPM’s IT systems.
Cybersecurity
Chaffetz wants answers from US-CERT, OPM on hack
A top watchdog in Congress isn't done with his probes into the theft of personal data on feds.
Cybersecurity