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
Annual Defense Bill Likely To Slip in Cyber Clampdown on Contractors
More China bashing, ill-constructed wording or what?
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
Surface Pro is OK, program inventories are not, and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
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