Cybersecurity
How Much Will Today’s Internet Outage Cost?
Some companies lose tens of thousands of dollars for every minute of a DDoS attack.
Digital Government
Timing Glitch in DATA Act Makes It Impossible for IGs to Meet Reporting Deadline
Agencies won't have spending reports ready until 2017, so watchdogs get extension on reviewing those reports.
Digital Government
Video: Charging the Federal Government Up About Electric Vehicles
The Energy Department is developing ways to encourage adoption of electric vehicles.
Digital Government
IRS Needs to Physically Secure Its Computer Rooms
An IG report finds IRS needs to update physical access procedures to restricted rooms.
Cybersecurity
Agencies Can Now Buy Through GSA’s Cyber SINs
The agency announced 15 vendors have been approved for the new cyber-focused special item numbers.
Emerging Tech
New 3-D-Printed Hand Simultaneously Makes Fingerprint Scanners More Secure and Vulnerable
Replicating a whole hand to crack open biometrically sealed vaults is no longer just the stuff movies are made of.
Cybersecurity
Denying Trump’s Denial, US Intel Chief Says There’s More Evidence of Russian Hacking
The nation’s top intelligence official says “forensic and other” evidence prove Russian election interference.
Digital Government
DOD Wants You to Hack the Pentagon Again and Again
The department is prepping a contract vehicle for bug bounty programs.
Artificial Intelligence
Air Force Doesn’t Know How to Test Its Future Robotic Wingmen
How do you surprise a drone that can revise its strategy hundreds of times in an eyeblink?
Acquisition
Watchdogs honored at IG awards
Members of the federal inspector general community were honored for their tech oversight achievements at the 19th annual CIGIE awards.
Digital Government
DARPA transfers powerful space telescope to the Air Force
The Air Force Space Command is taking over operations of a sophisticated telescope built to survey and track space debris and satellites.
Digital Government
A Computer Watched the Debates. It Thought Clinton Was Happy and Trump Was Angry and Quite Sad
Grad students built an application that "watches" the debate, captures a video frame every 5 seconds and spits out a score on how confident it was that it recognizes a set of emotions.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon names firms to run bug bounty program
The Defense Department developed a contract vehicle that will let DOD components launch crowdsourced bug bounty campaigns to identify and remedy vulnerabilities in digital defenses.
Ideas
7 Tips to Best Secure Your Agency’s Digital Transformation Efforts
To support the benefits for digital transformation while addressing existing and emerging security concerns, agencies should consider adopting the following techniques.
Digital Government
Commerce taps big-data development partners
The Commerce Department's National Technical Information Service has chosen 35 companies and academic organizations to capitalize on the federal government's vast data assets.
Digital Government
Incessant Consumer Surveillance Is Leaking Into Physical Stores
Retail is on its way to a future of personalized everything—even prices.
Modernization
There’s still hope for IT modernization funding
There is more than one way to pay for modernization efforts at federal agencies.
Cybersecurity
IG: Cyber Weaknesses Persist in Energy Dept.'s Unclassified Systems
The audit found the department's systems are operating at higher than necessary risk.
Artificial Intelligence