Cybersecurity
19 Dot-Gov Domains to Use HTTPS Encryption By Default -- But Not WhiteHouse.gov
HTTPS ensure sensitive data aren’t encoded in plain text format and makes it more difficult for interlopers to redirect visitors to a different site.
Cybersecurity
How Congress can make cyber reforms real
Congressional oversight is essential to ensuring compliance with cybersecurity legislation. Here are three ways lawmakers can improve that oversight.
Cybersecurity
New cyber agency modeled on counterterrorism center
The cyber center, being announced today, is intended to give federal agencies a way to “connect the dots” on cyber-threat patterns.
Digital Government
DHS Wants to Plug Holes in Cyber Defenses with Big Data
Parsing data gleaned from its network-monitoring activities could provide a full-scale, real-time model of the potential cyberthreat agencies face, DHS officials say.
Cybersecurity
Medical Worker and Apple Employees Use Stolen Patient IDs to Buy iThings
Financial Services // Healthcare and Public Health // Retailer // New York, United States
Cybersecurity
Strategy reflects heightened cyberthreat
A new White House document identifies cybersecurity as a pressing national security concern.
Cybersecurity
Holiday Inn Phones Hacked As Part of Phishing Scheme
Hospitality // Texas, United States
Cybersecurity
Hackers Block Animal Shelter Donations, Pose As Cute Syrian Rebels on Skype, and Bust Into HipChat
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
Need a Job? Cyber Command Is Halfway Full
The Pentagon is at the midway point of staffing a projected 6,000-person Cyber Command.
Cybersecurity
Navy intelligence challenged by big data
Rear Adm. Elizabeth Train says a common networking architecture is a pressing need.
Cybersecurity
UMass Memorial Ex-Employee Takes Off With Billing Data on Up To 14,000 Patients
Healthcare and Public Health // Massachusetts, United States
Cybersecurity
Exclusive: OPM Monitoring Anthem Hack; Feds Might Be Affected
The Office of Personnel Management is keeping a close eye on details emerging about a hack at the second biggest U.S. health insurer, Anthem Inc.
Cybersecurity
Anthem cyberattack renews calls for info sharing
House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul said Congress needs "to take aggressive action."
Cybersecurity
Hackers Access 80M Customer Records at Major Insurer Anthem
Healthcare and Public Health
Cybersecurity
Pentagon Proposes At Least $27M to Grow Ranks of Cyber Forces
The military services each want to bring on board an additional 20 to 60 computer security whizzes starting next fall.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers Debut Bill to Require Search Warrants for Email Snooping
Mirror bills to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act will land in both chambers on Wednesday.
Cybersecurity
Secret Service needs a CIO
The Secret Service is looking to pay up to $183,300 to a candidate who can "transform" the way the agency uses technology.
Cybersecurity