Cybersecurity
Facebook Failed to Notify Federal Social Media Community about Data Leak
A programming error allowed users to see other users’ confidential email addresses and phone numbers.
Modernization
You Know Who Else 'Inadvertently' Gathered Your Electronic Data?
Google and NSA may be doing similar things. Why should only one be held accountable?
Cybersecurity
Facebook's Former Security Chief Now Works for the NSA
The Chief Security Officer at a tech company is primarily concerned with keeping its information inside the company.
Digital Government
Ex-Government Official: The Private Sector Is Threatening Your Privacy
Are data-mining companies and social-media platforms scarier than the government?
Digital Government
Op-ed: Hagel's Gospel on Defending Networks
The Pentagon is pouring money into cybersecurity, but how that will work is another thing entirely.
Cybersecurity
Feds probe contractor that vetted Snowden
While the inquiry is unrelated to Snowden's clearance, 'background investigations have real consequences,' McCaskill says.
Digital Government
The Government Is Spying on America with Drones, Too
FBI director Robert Mueller said the government has used surveillance drones in the U.S. — though "in a very, very minimal way."
Digital Government
Senate Champion of NSA's Mammoth Data Center Is Now Silent
Republican Orrin Hatch welcomed the $1.2 billion Utah complex as a tool to protect computer systems from cyber threats, but its role is actually much broader.
Cybersecurity
$11,000 for Anyone Who Spots an Internet Explorer Bug Before Dot-gov Hackers
Microsoft will pay hard cash to coders who tell the company about the software holes
Cybersecurity
U.S. teams with unexpected new cyber ally
The United States and Russia put aside differences on some issues to join forces in cyberspace.
Cybersecurity
What Snowden's thumb-drive stash of NSA secrets means for feds
No matter how much security technology an agency has, the human factor is hard to predict.
Digital Government
Which Tech Company Does the NSA Use Most?
By sheer numbers alone, the government asks the most of Microsoft.
Cybersecurity
How far is too far in cyber defense?
The revelations of monitoring at the NSA are just part of the larger debate over appropriate measures against cyber attacks.
Cybersecurity
Still seeking a CIO
The announcement that EPA CIO Malcolm Jackson is stepping down adds that agency to an already-long list.
Cybersecurity
Auditors and IRS Pan Tax Regulations for Bitcoins
The agency lacks time and money for formal rules on collecting revenue for income earned through the virtual currency.
Cybersecurity
How NSA Surveillance Jeopardizes Obama's G-8 Trip to Europe
Obama's task in Europe this week has been made even more challenging by the recent disclosures of American surveillance in allied countries.
Cybersecurity
NSA Leaks and the Pentagon Papers: The Difference Between Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg
How we answer may say more about us than it does about either of them.
Cybersecurity