Cybersecurity

FCC Employees, Is Your Internet Running Sluggish Today?

Some website operators are slowing FCC staff's access to their sites in protest of potential paid Internet fast lane regulations.

Cybersecurity

NIST's dream: Integrating security into design

New guidelines offer best practices for information systems security.

Cybersecurity

New NIST Guidance: Don't Make Security an Afterthought

Protections for critical systems will be baked into technology engineering from the get-go, under new standards.

Cybersecurity

Edward Snowden's Other Motive for Leaking: Better Encryption

He wasn't just trying to spark debate. He also wanted programmers to build better security systems.

Cybersecurity

Emails between patients and Catholic hospital system intercepted by hacker

Healthcare and Public Health // United States

Science & Tech

What the Most Secure Email in the Universe Would Look Like

Here’s how you will one day be able to send invisible messages on your future quantum cell-phone. By Patrick Tucker

Cybersecurity

German iPhone Hackers Pledge to Fund Snowden

The Chaos Computer Club, or CCC, aims to promote technical research and social issues, including privacy.

Cybersecurity

Justice reassures ISPs on information-sharing

A DOJ white paper asserts that federal law does not preclude companies from providing aggregate data -- if that data contains no specific, detailed information on customers.

Cybersecurity

DHS looking for a few good private-sector executives

TSA and CBP are now participating in the Loaned Executive Program, which brings private-sector executives into federal agencies for unpaid six-month assignments.

Cybersecurity

It Took Feds 13 Days to Unravel a TSP Cyber Hoax Perpetrated by... Feds

Documents acquired by Nextgov show how retirement fund officials scrambled to dissect a misguided Army cybersecurity exercise.

Cybersecurity

Lockheed looks to open standards

The standardized software is intended to boost the sharing of cyber-threat information through automation.

Cybersecurity

Hackers Target Nuke Data; Change Grades, Steal Mom's Identity

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

Cybersecurity

Information security incidents by agency

The Office of Management and Budget's annual report to Congress on the Federal Information Security Management Act details which agencies are getting hit and how.

Cybersecurity

GAO nudges DHS on high-risk areas

A new report both commends and jabs DHS for its work on IT acquisition and management.