Cybersecurity

Attention, HHS: Don’t Do What Australia Did with Its Online Health Exchange

Down under, a government-administered health exchange accidentally exposed consumer data online.

Cybersecurity

NSA Surveillance is About to go on Trial. Here's What You Need to Know

More than a year after Edward Snowden’s disclosures, an Appeals Court will weigh the government’s bulk collection of U.S. phone records.

Digital Government

Does Anybody Really Know How Many Cyber Professionals the Government Needs?

Quantifying the precise cyber talent gap remains an inexact science. Can a single federal cyber jobs database help?

Cybersecurity

Teacher’s Hacked Email Account Sends His Nude Photos to Students

Ex-lover of California educator broke into his school account and mailed indecent images.

Cybersecurity

GSA IT gets privacy impact assessment policy

IT program managers and system owners will be responsible for ensuring that the systems under their jurisdiction undergo a privacy impact assessment.

Cybersecurity

Pittsburgh Family Terrorized By Hackers Online and At Their Front Door

Financial Services // Healthcare and Public Health

Cybersecurity

Australia’s Version of Healthcare.gov Exposed Patient Data Multiple Times

Government (Foreign) // Healthcare and Public Health // Sydney, Australia

Cybersecurity

Hackers Demand Bitcoin, Expose Silk Road Judge and Shellshock City of Mobile

Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.

Cybersecurity

Navy Takes on Internet of Things with New Task Force

"Task Force Cyber Awakening" will draw from the head U.S. Cyber Command's reaction strategy to a major Navy computer system hack.

Cybersecurity

The Ubiquity of Cyber-Espionage

First Look Media's Morgan Marquis-Boire and Crowdstrike's Dmitri Alperovitch on why nation-states are the hackers we should be most afraid of

Modernization

The FBI's Secret House Meeting to Get Access to Your iPhone

The administration argues that encryption is making it difficult for police to catch dangerous criminals.

Cybersecurity

The Navy's cyber awakening

A departmentwide task force makes cyberspace a warfighting issue and attempts to synchronize disparate internal approaches to the challenge.

Cybersecurity

Teacher's Hacked Email Account Sends His Nude Photos to Students

Education // Web Services // California , United States

Cybersecurity

When Government is the Hacker, How Do You Protect Yourself?

FBI malware and mass government surveillance breach U.S. citizens’ privacy, tech firms say.

Cybersecurity

Building top-notch information security teams

High-performing security teams look very different today than they did a decade ago, but too many agencies have paid insufficient attention to attracting and developing the right talent.