Cybersecurity
FOIA scorecard, an NSA lawsuit, USPTO's new director and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
Do Tech Companies Owe It to the Public to Cooperate With Surveillance?
Private firms have become uneasy about keeping tabs on customers, but they should put collective safety ahead of profit.
Modernization
CIA Is Trying to Hack Your iPhone
New Snowden documents reveal a decade-long CIA push to break Apple’s encryption protections.
Digital Government
Why the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Has Eyes on the Arctic
NGA’s focus on the North Pole could allow the agency to go even more open source.
Digital Government
Isis -- No, Not That One -- Wins $7 Million Pentagon Cyber Contract
The Pentagon has hired a little-known Virginia startup with an unfortunate name to work on a big data project.
Cybersecurity
PI Hired Hackers to Dig up Dirt on People He Was Paid to Investigate
New York, United States
Cybersecurity
Computer Whiz Kid Hacked High School to Fix His Bad Grades
Education // New York, United States
Cybersecurity
Brit Allegedly Extracted Data from Pentagon Satellite System
The data compromised includes employee contact information and mobile device ID numbers.
Cybersecurity
Brit Allegedly Extracted Data from Pentagon Satellite System
Government (U.S.) // United States
Cybersecurity
Hackers Con Telecom IT Support Worker, Bilk Mandarin Oriental Guests and Trigger Bogus Bomb Alarm at a Mall
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Modernization
Why the Mobile Industry Wants to Kill the Password
As data rather than voice or text becomes the big reason people use their mobile phones, networks want to extract more value from their users.
Cybersecurity
Peering into the cyber future
A new IARPA program looks to fund technology that can anticipate rather than react to cyber threats.
Cybersecurity
Fast track for cyber hiring, UK hacker and DHS prizes
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
High-Paying Guests Hacked at Mandarin Oriental
Hospitality // United States and Europe
Cybersecurity
Attention, Cyber Pros: The Pentagon Wants You -- 3,000 of You
The military has been given the go-ahead to fast-track the hiring of 3,000 computer whiz civilians.
Cybersecurity
Sorry Consumers, Companies Have Little Incentive to Invest in Better Cybersecurity
The actual expenses from the recent and high-profile breaches at Sony, Target and Home Depot amount to less than 1% of each company’s annual revenues.
Cybersecurity
The biggest information security risk for agencies isn't cyber
Federal security incidents increased 16 percent in FY 2014, and though "other" cyber investigations appear to be the culprit, "non-cyber" security concerns maintain the lead.
Cybersecurity
DHS procurement dodged a slow-moving bullet
Stop-and-start uncertainty had threatened deployment of the latest iteration of the Einstein automated intrusion-detection program.
Cybersecurity