Cybersecurity
Pentagon Contractors Rank Below Retailers and Banks When it Comes to Cybersecurity
Pentagon suppliers score below hacked retailers and banks on cyber defense, according to industry-developed metrics.
Cybersecurity
Attackers Breached Systems Serving 8 Harvard Colleges and Offices
Education // Massachusetts, United States
People
Deadline for Rising Star nominations extended to July 9
We're looking for women and men who are having an outsized impact on federal IT -- and who show clear signs of being leaders in the community in the years to come.
Cybersecurity
HHS mirrors Google, bank regulators' IT shortcomings and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Emerging Tech
Q&A: Why Congress is Jumping on the Open Source Bandwagon
Ben Balter, chief executive for code repository site Github, talked with Nextgov about last week's announcement.
Cybersecurity
Why Americans Don’t Trust the Government to Safeguard Their Data
Many consumers do not have much faith in federal agencies keeping their personal information safe, according to a new report.
Ideas
After the OPM Breach, It’s Time for IT Organizations to be Accountable
Modernized technology and formal standards like FISMA won’t be enough -- mindsets must change, too.
Modernization
For NOAA, flexible cloud enables mammoth computing
NOAA is harnessing the potential of the cloud – and the innovation of the private sector – to deliver its enormous troves of data to the public.
Acquisition
Small business contracts: Digging into agencies' performance
The percentage of contracts going to small businesses varies widely from agency to agency -- and the patterns for specific small-business types are even more interesting.
Digital Government
New study could help bio-threat response
The goal is to be able to predict outcomes from terrorist incidents involving anthrax.
People
Barry West still missing at FDIC
The agency CIO and former AFFIRM president has been on leave since at least early June.
Cybersecurity
California Employee Faces Charges over College Hack and Drug Possession
Education // California, United States
Cybersecurity
DHS Alerts Public to OPM-Related Phishing Scams
Emails claiming to come from the agency and contractor CSID might be after money, U.S. secrets or both, say experts.
Cybersecurity
VA CIO: OPM Breach Is a Lesson for All Employees
VA defends against 55,000 new malware variants every day, according to the agency.
Cybersecurity
Is the White House Skirting Governmentwide Cybersecurity Rules?
The White House’s unclassified networks were breached by hackers last fall.
Cybersecurity
e-QIP fallout and more phishing schemes
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Artificial Intelligence
How Do We Stop Artificial Intelligence from Overpowering Humans?
Legislation could help protect humankind before AI dominates the world, experts say.
Cybersecurity
Warren: Cyber won't suffer in VA budget crunch
Acting VA tech head Steph Warren says malware attempts are trending down from a peak in March, a result of the wider use of Einstein 3.
Cybersecurity
Halvorsen's Silicon Valley trip shakes up JRSS
An RFP for Joint Regional Security Stacks software will ask vendors to incorporate big-data analytics capabilities that DOD CIO Terry Halvorsen observed firsthand in Silicon Valley.
Digital Government