Cybersecurity

IC: Technology is a threat and a tool

Intelligence community leaders say technology continues to present new threats and new opportunities to combat them.

Emerging Tech

NASA Is Launching a Mission to Visit an Asteroid and Maybe Save the World

The ambitious OSIRIS-REx mission promises to provide new information about our universe to the scientific community.

Cybersecurity

White House Names First Chief Information Security Officer

The White House selected Gregory Touhill, a retired Air Force general, for the new role.

Digital Government

Following Bid Protest, DISA Re-Releases $17.5B Contract

Encore III earned ire from industry groups earlier this year because it sought “lowest price, technically acceptable” solutions for potentially complex services.

Digital Government

Colin Powell Advised Hillary Clinton on How to Skirt Email Security as Secretary of State

Powell describes how he communicated with friends without going through State Department servers.

Cybersecurity

2 of 'Crackas With Attitude' Arrested for Hacking into Senior Officials' Accounts

The hackers allegedly used social engineering techniques and impersonated victims to gain access to senior U.S. government officials, their families, and several U.S. government computer systems.

Digital Government

LinkedIn’s Search Algorithm Apparently Favored Men Until This Week

Until Sep. 7, LinkedIn users searching for female contacts on the site may have noticed some strange results.

Cybersecurity

DNC hack shows evolving nation-state threat

The hacks and data exfiltrations against political targets in the U.S., including the Democratic National Committee, illustrate the evolving nation-state cyberthreat, according to the White House's top homeland security advisor.

Digital Government

GSA's Roth: TTS commissioner search is progressing

GSA Administrator Denise Roth hopes to have a "good sense" of the next Technology Transformation Service commissioner by the end of September and expects the next administration to build on digital services.

Cybersecurity

DHS' Touhill tapped as top federal cybersecurity officer

Greg Touhill, a retired Air Force general and a leading cybersecurity executive at DHS, has been named the first U.S. CISO. Grant Schneider will serve as acting deputy CISO.

Cybersecurity

Senator to Twitter: Help Us Fend Off Russian Spambots

A top Democrat on the homeland security committee today wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

Cybersecurity

Old adversaries, new threats, say intel overseers

Congressional leaders say the U.S. continues to face threats from the same old adversaries, but those threats are changing and so must America's intelligence structures.

Cybersecurity

Johnson: Cyber reorg should be priority for next Congress

The long-planned reorganization and upgrade of DHS' primary cybersecurity office should be a top priority for the next Congress, the DHS secretary said.

Digital Government

Commission on Care, lawmakers want commercial EHR for VA

The leaders of the Commission on Care are recommending that the Department of Veterans Affairs abandon its homegrown VistA software for a commercial product.

Ideas

Beyond Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt: A Glimpse Inside Today’s CISO Playbook

The time has come for chief information security officers to change their strategy.