Cybersecurity
Lawmakers Not Briefed About Obama's New $35 Million Cyber Agency
“I believe [the news] is how everyone else found it . … We know about as much as you do.”
Digital Government
Judge Dismisses Challenge to NSA Internet Surveillance
A California district judge found that "the Plaintiffs’ version of the significant operational details of the Upstream collection process is substantially inaccurate.”
Cybersecurity
Can the Senate make sense of the Internet of Things?
Lawmakers and experts discuss how to ensure IoT security without getting in the way of innovation.
Cybersecurity
Feds respond to critical Windows flaw
OMB and DHS are collaborating on implementing the fix across federal networks.
Cybersecurity
Commodities Trading Firm Wires $17.2 Million to Phishing Scammer
Financial Services // Omaha, United States
Cybersecurity
Obama’s New Cyber Agency Puts Spies in Charge of Sharing Threat Tips with Agencies
The new Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center will be patterned after the intelligence fusion center stood up in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Cybersecurity
Critical tech, reverse auctions and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
US Government Requests for Information on Twitter Users Spike
Most of the time, the publishing platform gave officials what they wanted.
Cybersecurity
White House Creates Cyber-Sharing Hub for the Federal Government
The $35 million cyberhub is intended to better coordinate intelligence among government agencies to ward off hacks like the one that brought Sony Pictures to its knees.
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