Cybersecurity
Coast Guard Aviators Shop for a Course-Plotting iPad App
To avoid a cockpit computer hijacking, USCG should require the software be made-in-America, security experts warn.
Cybersecurity
What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online?
A scholar argues that the real issue is protecting consumers from corporations that are developing ever more sophisticated techniques for getting people to part with their money.
Cybersecurity
DHS works to get classification tools in line
The Homeland Security Department plans to deploy an electronic document classification management tool designed to match up with other federal intelligence networks.
Cybersecurity
Biometrics head to toe
Agencies' use of biometrics for identity management has centered on fingerprints and iris scans, but the options do not stop there.
Cybersecurity
If not Clapper, then who?
A reader confirms the sense of uncertainty not only over who should lead an intelligence review, but who should be involved.
Cybersecurity
A careful biometrics strategy
John Klossner illustrates a way to move toward biometrics without a major resource commitment.
Cybersecurity
Hacks on energy department personnel continue . . . yawn
Energy // Government (U.S.) // United States
Cybersecurity
Hackers Threaten a Texas Baby, Hit Miss Teen USA with Sextortion, Target an Indian Telecom
Just another harrowing week in ThreatWatch, our compendium of notable data breaches.
Cybersecurity
Another step toward automated customs checks
New interactive screens at O’Hare help travelers speed their way through customs by eliminating the need to have border agents process their passports and declaration paperwork.
Cybersecurity
Readers divided about VA theory on stolen laptops
Readers offer a mixture of criticism and praise for Acting Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology Stephen Warren's response to VA data breaches.
Cybersecurity
A tipping point for biometrics?
Nearly a decade after HSPD-12 was issued, the Department of Homeland Security is beginning to make real progress on linking ID cards to their holders.
Cybersecurity
Hackers exploit weakest link at The Washington Post: a sports writer
Media // Washington, DC, United States
Cybersecurity
DHS faces growing leadership gap
At least 15 DHS leadership positions are vacant or filled temporarily, and the department's head is leaving next month.
Digital Government
Larry Ellison, NSA Database Supplier, Approves of NSA Surveillance
Ellison, co-founder and CEO of Oracle, appeared on an interview with CBS.
Cybersecurity
New BPAs to aid in cyberdefense
Offered by GSA and DHS, new purchase agreements provider continuous monitoring and other services to secure .gov websites.
Cybersecurity
Stranger swears at sleeping toddler though hacked baby monitor
Healthcare and Public Health // Telecommunications // Texas, United States
Cybersecurity
DHS Awards Contractors $6 Billion for Agency Network Surveillance
Booz Allen Hamilton and 16 others earn spots on the continuous monitoring project.
Cybersecurity
DHS contract looks to bolster civilian cyber defense
More than a dozen companies will provide continuous monitoring and diagnostics for the Homeland Security Department's blanket purchase agreement designed to bolster civilian cyber defense.
Cybersecurity