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DOD's Biggest Cyber Challenge?
For the Defense Department's Cyber Command, looking for qualified cybersecurity employees is the easy part. Finding them is turning out to be a difficult prospect.
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Honoring the Chosin Few
On Dec. 6, 1950, the 5th and 7th Marine regiments started their famed advance to the rear (Marines never retreat) from Chosin Reservoir in northeast Korea near the Chinese border to Hungnam, South Korea. They carried their dead and wounded in temperatures that hovered around 35 degrees below zero. The feat is celebrated in the Corps to this day, but it's an otherwise little known event in a widely ignored war.
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Health IT: Home Court Advantage
Health IT systems are critical to the success of patient-centered medical home models for health care, a new study finds.
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Marines harness the sun
Gas-powered generators use hundreds of gallons of fuel that has to be sent to the front lines. Marines are hoping new technologies will ease the load.
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Sewer-band Internet could come to your town
Quincy, Ill., tests the sewers for providing Internet service. It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.
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Government waking up to social media, survey finds
A new report finds the government adoption of social media lags behind the commercial sector, but new policies have launched a flurry of activity.
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Recommended reading
This week: The case against collaboration; no need for information anarchy; where iPhones go to die; try crowdsourcing for ore IT support.
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Can we fight cyber crime like the Untouchables fought Capone?
Recent successful legal action against the Waledac botnet offers some hope that lawyers might succeed where technology has failed in the war against cyber crime.
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Why international aid needs a viral social media presence
Networking on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube enables agency to advance its 'Third Goal': Sharing the experience with other Americans.
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Ah, yes—statistics!
We all know the maxim (variously attributed to about six different people) that “there are lies, damned lies and statistics.”
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Stuxnet worm deemed 'best malware ever'
The highly sophisticated malware known as the Stuxnet worm operated undetected for nearly six months while carrying out its stealth attack on utility infrastructure around the globe. Read about how it was brought to bay.
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Lawmakers ask White House to stop DHS financial system
House Judiciary Committee leaders say the department has not followed OMB requirements for developing the risky projects, but Homeland Security officials disagree.
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