Digital Government
Facebook Is Expanding the Way It Tracks You and Your Data
The social giant is digging into information from your smartphone and tracking the other websites you visit.
Cybersecurity
CBP biometric test center set to open
The Maryland facility will test devices that record biometric data from travelers exiting the country.
Cybersecurity
Diners at P.F. Chang’s Should Check Their Credit Card Statements
Financial Services // Food and Beverage
Cybersecurity
Fake Dot-Gov Webmail Used in Phishing Scam to Hack EPA and Census Staff
Nigerian admits breaching employee email accounts to order agency office products that he then sold on the black market.
Cybersecurity
House Intel chairman upbeat on cyber legislation
Rep. Mike Rogers says a better public understanding of cyber issues in the wake of the Snowden leaks would help push information-sharing proposals forward.
Cybersecurity
New NIST guidance planned as part of federal info policy
The National Archives and Records Administration is leading a plan to create new standards for controlled unclassified government information that includes new NIST guidance and changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
Cybersecurity
An Innocent Bot May Have Unwittingly Spread a Virus Around Twitter
A Twitter service may have helped take down the tweet reader Tweetdeck.
Cybersecurity
CIA Live: Spy Agency Holds Public Summit
Intelligence chief defends cyberthreat monitoring, but questions the extent to which powerful tracking capabilities should be applied.
Cybersecurity
China Responds to the Latest Hacking Accusations by Calling America “The Matrix”
China’s foreign ministry meant to highlight America’s hypocrisy.
Cybersecurity
Who Needs Heartbleed When Many Dot-Govs Don't Even Encrypt Communications?
26 percent of federal websites lack the proper configuration to thwart attackers from intercepting data entered by citizens, study finds.
Cybersecurity
Patient with STD sues hospital for posting her health records on Facebook
Healthcare and Public Health // Ohio, United States
Cybersecurity
Man Who May Be a Top Chinese Hacker Likes Grain Alcohol, Heineken
The everyday life of a PLA hacker.
Digital Government
IRS Illegally Gave Taxpayer Data to the FBI in 2010, Republicans Say
Move is evidence of effort to undermine conservative groups, lawmakers say.
Cybersecurity
Why New Macs Are DHS’ Key to Malware That Targets PCs
Agency buys hardware and software ahead of move to St. Elizabeths.
Cybersecurity
If You Think Cybersecurity Is ‘Just an IT Problem,’ Prepare to Get Owned
Security exec describes today’s cyber landscape. It’s not pretty.
Cybersecurity