Cybersecurity
Lawmakers Not Briefed About Obama's New $35 Million Cyber Agency
“I believe [the news] is how everyone else found it . … We know about as much as you do.”
Digital Government
Judge Dismisses Challenge to NSA Internet Surveillance
A California district judge found that "the Plaintiffs’ version of the significant operational details of the Upstream collection process is substantially inaccurate.”
Cybersecurity
Can the Senate make sense of the Internet of Things?
Lawmakers and experts discuss how to ensure IoT security without getting in the way of innovation.
Modernization
DISA CIO: Don't discount 'DOD mindset' on data protection
David Bennett touts the potential of standardized and virtualized IT, while returning to a sticking point between DOD and industry: liability in the event of data loss.
Cybersecurity
Feds respond to critical Windows flaw
OMB and DHS are collaborating on implementing the fix across federal networks.
Digital Government
High-Risk List: Government IT Projects Fail ‘Too Frequently’
The government has wasted billions on botched IT projects that fail to deliver promised -- or any -- functionality and have been mothballed. Even more programs are still on the books, but remain at risk of falling behind
Acquisition
IT acquisition failures land on high-risk list
Technology problems are at the heart of a number of programs on GAO’s list of troubled federal initiatives.
Cybersecurity
Commodities Trading Firm Wires $17.2 Million to Phishing Scammer
Financial Services // Omaha, United States
Cybersecurity
Obama’s New Cyber Agency Puts Spies in Charge of Sharing Threat Tips with Agencies
The new Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center will be patterned after the intelligence fusion center stood up in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Digital Government
New Brain Decoder Could Boost Neuroscience Research
The new brain-scanning technique could change the way scientists think about human focus.
Cybersecurity
Critical tech, reverse auctions and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
US Government Requests for Information on Twitter Users Spike
Most of the time, the publishing platform gave officials what they wanted.
Digital Government
Why ‘Facebook at Work’ Might Work
One factor in Facebook’s favor: Millions of people are already using Facebook at the office.
Cybersecurity
White House Creates Cyber-Sharing Hub for the Federal Government
The $35 million cyberhub is intended to better coordinate intelligence among government agencies to ward off hacks like the one that brought Sony Pictures to its knees.
Cybersecurity
19 Dot-Gov Domains to Use HTTPS Encryption By Default -- But Not WhiteHouse.gov
HTTPS ensure sensitive data aren’t encoded in plain text format and makes it more difficult for interlopers to redirect visitors to a different site.
Digital Government
NGA banks on the power of transparency
Agency director touts data shared to combat Ebola, says open approach "is our future."
Digital Government
Using SIGINT to detect trends
IARPA uses publicly available data to predict crises; now it wants to use signals intelligence for the same purpose.
Digital Government