Cybersecurity
NGA to merge CIO and IT services
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency reorganization is an effort to bolster IC ITE, an ambitious IC-wide IT architecture.
Cybersecurity
DHS IT compliance head moves to USDA
Richard Young is the new CIO at the Foreign Agricultural Service.
Cybersecurity
IG blasts secrecy on JFK IT security lapses
The DHS inspector general says TSA is unduly classifying embarrassing IT practices at the New York airport.
Cybersecurity
Mixed messages for VA IT
A report from Mandiant offers an upbeat assessment, but an IG report is critical of IT project management.
Cybersecurity
CIS gearing up for deferred action
Citizenship and Immigration Services wants to hire secure IT personnel ahead of an expected tsunami of new application forms.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Defile Crayola, Borrow F-35 Designs and Tick off Madonna
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
What Do CENTCOM’s Twitter Hack and GoDaddy Have in Common?
Two Tennessee Valley Authority sites were compromised in 2013, when an adversary broke in through a software flaw.
Cybersecurity
Autistic Boy Commits Suicide after Virus Accuses Him of Illicit Online Activity
Web Services // Windsor, England
Cybersecurity
Why Obama's Cybersecurity Plan May Not Make Americans Safer
The president's proposal promises to anonymize data. Experts don't think that will help.
Cybersecurity
New spectrum chief and a Coast Guard cyber plan
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Hacker behind Leaks of Madonna’s, Other Entertainers’ Songs Is Apprehended
Entertainment // New York, United States
Management
New Cybersecurity Center in Pennsylvania Aims to Help Fend Off Attacks
Keystone State’s former CIO: “We’re trying to improve security awareness, information, specifically in the government space in state, county and local government.”
Cybersecurity