Cybersecurity
Senate unlikely to revisit cybersecurity bill before election, Lieberman says
Efforts to pass the legislation before recess broke down.
Cybersecurity
GoDaddy says outage was no hack
This is the first time GoDaddy has given any information at all about what happened
Digital Government
GoDaddy outage briefly took down FedBizOpps, three other GSA sites
GSA didn’t directly contract with GoDaddy, spokesman says.
Cybersecurity
One person is claiming credit for GoDaddy's massive outage
The site's DNS servers had been disabled as a result of this large-scale hack.
Cybersecurity
House targets cybersecurity, transparency in 2013 continuing resolution
An expected spending agreement would keep the government functioning, add some funding for high-priority programs.
Cybersecurity
Federal IT workforce needs training investment, expert says
Technology aids the workforce, but the government's IT security personnel need investments in training and development opportunities to truly thrive.
Cybersecurity
9/11 haunts debate over cybersecurity
Some doubt whether a cyberattack could cause the same loss of life and physical destruction.
Modernization
The password fallacy: Why our security system is broken, and how to fix it
Our password system is broken, and it's about time we change it.
Cybersecurity
App maker, not Apple or the FBI, was the source of user data leak
Turns out the FBI isn't doing some big brother tracking using Apple UDIDs which hacker group Anti-Sec released last week.
Cybersecurity
Federal data breaches: How long is too long to inform victims?
Informing potential victims of a data breach as early as possible seems like a sensible policy, but it's not that easy.
Emerging Tech
Get ready for computers worldwide to automatically smother cyber strikes
‘Cyber ecosystem’ could mimic dynamics of the human immune system to isolate and contain threats robotically.
Digital Government
An FBI battle over phone passwords Is brewing
The federal government has made it clear that a lot of our phone data isn't really ours.
Digital Government
State-sponsored computer attacks grow increasingly ‘reckless,’ NSA official says
Debora Plunkett calls out nation-sanctioned cyber players.
Cybersecurity
Look-alike sites funnel big money to mystery PAC
About 3,000 donors fell for sophisticated phishing scheme.
Digital Government
Pentagon receives ‘overwhelming response’ to Plan X cyber offensive
DARPA postpones release of official solicitation.
Cybersecurity
Executive order could institute controversial cybersecurity measures
A rumored order would allegedly implement parts of a bill that stalled in Congress this year.
Cybersecurity
Found in translation: How one person unites a leadership team
An agency's business leaders speak a different language than its technology heads, but to accomplish the agency's mission goals they must communicate. At the intersection of these contentious constituents there is often one person providing translation.
Cybersecurity
BYOD security monitoring is not the norm
Study finds 62 percent of federal security pros lack systems for tracking government data on personal smartphones.
Cybersecurity