Cybersecurity

Cyber Officials Ask: How Do You Prove Cyber Protections Are Worth The Investment?

When your whole job is preventing attacks from happening, it can be hard to prove how effective you are.

Digital Government

Senate Narrowly Passes Repeal of Obama Fair Pay, Safe Workplace Rule

Repeal of what critics call contractor "blacklisting" heads to a receptive President Trump.

Cybersecurity

WikiLeaks posts spy trove purporting to contain CIA hacking tools

Wikileaks launches what it claims is its largest-ever release of CIA data, which includes nearly 9,000 documents and files alleged to contain hacking tools and covert program details.

Cybersecurity

Ransomware Attack Continues on Pennsylvania State Democrats

Government (U.S.) // Pennsylvania, United States

Digital Government

Government Matters: Budget Cuts and Hiring Cyber Talent

A new administration continues to present challenges to government agencies.

Digital Government

Lawmakers target disappearing records

Two bills before the House Oversight committee deal with the problem of electronic records being altered or lost.

Digital Government

Facebook Is Making Life Absurdly Difficult in German Court

The German government is threatening the social media giant with hefty fines if it doesn’t deal with fake news and hate speech.

Digital Government

‘Worst to First’: How the U.S. Postal Service Cleaned Up Employee Discrimination Complaints

USPS tackled its backlog of complaints and now provides that service to more than two dozen other agencies.

Emerging Tech

Meet the Satellite in Space that Maps and Predicts Lightning

The agency's next-gen satellite is taking some awesome pictures as it tests its instruments.

Digital Government

5 technology priorities for President Trump

The Obama administration improved government technology, but the Trump team must push it further forward.

Modernization

Shared service gets some blame for HUD's financial woes

The department's struggles with shared services contributed to restatement of financial data, according to HUD's inspector general.

Acquisition

Senate votes to repeal 'blacklisting' rule

In a close vote, the Senate passed a resolution to eliminate the so-called blacklisting rule for federal contractors.

Digital Government

Russia’s Spear Phishing Tactics in the 2016 Election Are Boring Compared to Its 2008 Hack of the US Military

Long before the world knew the contents of Hillary Clinton staffers’ inboxes thanks to Russian hackers, the country went after an even bigger US target.

Digital Government

The Cyberwar Information Gap

Unlike a conventional military strike, state-on-state cyberattacks can go unreported for years.

Digital Government

Trump’s Braintrust Just Won an Immigration Battle with Silicon Valley They Have Been Fighting for Years

The H-1B visa is favored by US tech companies, as it allows them to source specially-skilled STEM workers from abroad.

Modernization

Video: Choosing the Right Keyboard App

Texting is too important to stick with the default keyboard.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT’s New Robot Reads Your Thoughts and Knows When It Made a Mistake

Instead of taking over for a computer, typing instructions onto keyboards, or speaking them aloud, what if you could just think them?