Ideas
5 Cyber Risk Trends for 2016
These are the top themes CIOs and CISOs should have on their radar in the new year.
Cybersecurity
Payment Thieves Breach Restaurateur That Owns Bubba Gump, Morton's, Others
Food and Beverage // United States
Digital Government
The Life-Saving Train Technology That Congress Isn’t Fully Funding
The omnibus budget bill allocated money for a railroad-safety measure that prevents accidents. But not enough.
Cybersecurity
Sanders Staff Improperly Accessed Clinton Voter Data at Length
Nonprofit // United States
Digital Government
Mark Zuckerberg’s Plea for Internet Freedom Means Nothing if he Keeps Kissing up to China
Where was Zuckerberg’s statement when China blocked Instagram, another property owned by Facebook?
Digital Government
DuckDuckGo, the Search Engine That Doesn’t Track its Users, Grew More Than 70% This Year
But it has also struggled to crack the mainstream.
Cybersecurity
Security Bugs in Widely-Used Juniper System Might Have Been Planted by Foreigners
Defense Industrial Base // Financial Services // Government (U.S.) // Healthcare and Public Health // Manufacturing // Social Media // Technology // Telecommunications // Web Services // Washington, DC, United States
Digital Government
Special Ops Want Agile Experts to Process Top Secret Data
The military force wants to embed a "multidiscipline agile development team" to process data so frontline decision makers can use it.
Modernization
Video: How to Track All of Your Holiday Packages
Be more efficient than Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.
Digital Government
10 Tech Takeaways in $1 Trillion Funding Bill
There are 423 references to “cyber” in the 2,000 page bill.
Modernization
How Mobile Carriers Skirt Net-Neutrality Rules
“There’s something stomach-twisting about a company offering free video streaming but charging for filling out an online job application.”
Digital Government
DHS: Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones
The homeland security agency, and local law enforcement as well, are looking to harden its drones against attack, but that comes at a price.
Emerging Tech
NASA’s About to Have Its Biggest Budget in a Decade
The space agency will be able to spend $19.3 billion next year, according to the budget, an increase of more than $1.3 billion over 2015 funding levels.
Cybersecurity
Bernie Sanders Has His Own Computer Scandal: A Data Breach Exposed Hillary’s Secret Info
The consequences of the glitch—which originated with Democratic campaign vendor NGP-VAN—could prove devastating to Sanders.
Modernization
Report: Juniper breach has feds worried
A big breach at computer security firm Juniper Networks has federal officials fearing that foreign spies had access to encrypted communications between the U.S. government and the private sector for the last three years, according to a CNN report.
Cybersecurity
Audit finds Navy installations still vulnerable
Navy officials did not properly tap the National Crime Information Center when screening certain contractors, the IG concluded in a November report that was released in full on Dec. 18.
People
How to manage agency budgets in real time
Here are three steps for moving from static spreadsheets to truly dynamic tools that support decision-making and mission analysis.
Digital Government
Congress passes $1.1T spending bill
Congress passed the omnibus appropriations bill on Dec. 18, funding the federal government through fiscal year 2016 and averting a possible shutdown.
Digital Government