Cybersecurity

White House and India Consider Counterhack Measures in Foggy Bottom

Many U.S. cyber outfits see business opportunities in India where cyber theft is a growing problem.

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A virtual community of cyber talent

Organizers of CyberCompEX are aiming to have 1,000 online registrants by year's end.

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Air Force plans insider threats program

The USAF wants to procure a program that integrates data from around the service and external data like criminal and credit reports to identify anomalous behavior.

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Facebook Dumped a Harvard Intern After he Exposed a Privacy Flaw

Arun Khanna found out the hard way that Facebook doesn’t particularly appreciate it when potential employees reveal embarrassing privacy gaps.

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Will This New Report Help Agencies Get Their Cyber Act Together?

The National Institute for Standards and Technology wants federal agencies to get their act together on cyber.

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Does the US Need a 'See Something, Say Something" Campaign for Cyber?

Americans lock their doors, install surveillance cameras and call the police to report suspicious activities. But that same level of caution has not transferred into cyberspace.

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Feds Expect to Spend at Least $500 Million on the Next Five Years of Data Breaches

The government is preparing to hire contractors to deal with future breaches.

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Sandia wants to help security analysts see better

A research agreement with EyeTracking Inc. could benefit intelligence analysts working to identify security threats.

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BlackBerry joins cyber alliance, FBI opens biometric tech center and more

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

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Bill to Criminalize Revenge Porn Coming After Recess

Lawmakers led by Rep. Jackie Speier want to outlaw nonconsensual porn, but they'll be up against opposition from free-speech advocates.

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A season for cyber

A big cybersecurity bill awaits the Senate in September, and several other information-security measures are in the pipeline.

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Sprint leaders take a modest lap

Two agencies stood above the rest at the end of the federal cyber sprint, and one of them was the agency at the center of the cybersecurity maelstrom.

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Obama Asks for 72 Percent Raise in IRS Cyber Funding to Combat ID Thieves

White House proposes pushing $242 million into agency data analysis, IT controls and victim support, among other things.

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Decrypting outbound data a key to security

Decrypting and inspecting network traffic is still a work in progress for federal agencies, according to F5 Networks' Randy Wood.

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NIST identifies objectives for cyber standards

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is proposing four broad objectives as the foundation for international standards in cyberspace.

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Booking a satellite, busting on executive orders and more

News and notes from around the federal IT community.