Digital Government
Video: The Easiest Ways to Back Up Your Files
Not backing up your files is a huge risk. Stop it.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon Hires Investigators to Find Hacked Feds
A tool for determining why mail notifications are returned must be running by Oct. 9 and a website for individuals to check if they're affected by the breach must be running by Nov. 17.
Modernization
Don't Have Unlimited Data? You Might Want to Turn Off This New iOS9 App
Beware of a new feature called "Wi-Fi Assist".
Digital Government
Google or Facebook: What's the Better Workplace?
Comparing the two tech companies is a little like apples and oranges.
Emerging Tech
Water Is Flowing on Mars
In a major scientific finding, researchers confirm briny water flows seasonally on the Red Planet.
People
OPM trumpets the 1 percent
In a partial release of major survey results, the Office of Personnel Management touted improvement, though the data reveal only minor changes in federal employee feelings.
Cybersecurity
For NGA, key to open source might be embracing uncertainty
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has made a point of hitching its operations to the boom in open source data. The next step could be philosophical -- a willingness to accept uncertainty.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Stay at Hilton & Trick Lunch Lady into Exposing Students, While Workers Lose Child Mental Health Records
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
People
DOE tech officer set to leave
Associate CIO and CTO Peter Tseronis is leaving the Energy Department at the end of the month.
Cybersecurity
Ban encryption? Don't believe the hype
Efforts to weaken encryption are misguided and will do nothing to protect individuals or national security.
Modernization
The shifting IT shopping lists
A survey of buyers of government IT found surprising trends in the solutions being sought.
Digital Government
ACLU Argues for Right to Sue NSA for “Upstream” Surveillance
After getting rebuffed in 2013, privacy lawyers are trying again to convince a federal court to hear its argument that the government’s tapping of the Internet backbone is unconstitutional.
Digital Government
Can the U.S. Trust China to Stop Stealing Business Secrets?
Obama threatened sanctions, but proving responsibility for a cyberattack will be difficult.
Digital Government
NSA Head: Loss of Access to Metadata Will Hurt Intelligence
The director of the NSA says the Freedom Act will slow and hamper intelligence gathering. Too bad it’s already law.
Cybersecurity
School Nutrition Staffer Leaked Student SSNs to a Hacker
Education // Kentucky, United States
Cybersecurity
Canadian Engineer Association Delivers Member Records to Bad Folks
Nonprofit // Canada
Digital Government
Both DOD and the Intelligence Community are Working on Major IT Upgrades. Will They Work Together?
The two initiatives must play well with each other to ensure national security imperatives are best executed across all missions and personnel levels.
Digital Government