Cybersecurity
Hackers Breach S. Korea Nuke Plants, Look Up JMU Employees, and Con Inmates
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
Anonymous Posts 13,000 Account Passwords and Payment Data Used for PSN, Xbox, Amazon, Other Sites
Entertainment // Financial Services // Web Services // Retailer
Cybersecurity
Database Glitch Might Have Exposed Data on 7,000 Vets
Government (U.S.) // Healthcare and Public Health
Cybersecurity
Infected Afghan Government Websites Dole out Chinese Malware to Visitors
Government (Foreign) // Kabul, Afghanistan
Cybersecurity
Intruders Found Data on James Madison University Employees
Education // Virginia, United States
Cybersecurity
Prison Medical Records Clerk Stole Inmate IDs to Claim $1M in Bogus Tax Refunds
Government (U.S.) // Alabama, United States
Digital Government
When Will Santa Drop by Your House? Track His Every Movement With NORAD
Thousands of government volunteers will keep tabs on St. Nick.
Cybersecurity
Watchdog Says Secret Service Misses the Bar on Cybersecurity
The department's inability to get its own agency to fall in line could raise questions about the enlargement of Homeland Security's cyber authorities.
Digital Government
Agencies take different paths to mobility, GAO finds
A new study surveyed six agencies' strategies and their reliance on GSA for support in complying with the Digital Government Strategy.
Cybersecurity
Hacker Leaks S. Korea Nuke Plant Blueprints
Energy // Government (Foreign) // Seoul, South Korea
Emerging Tech
NASA Scientists Want to Colonize Venus with Giant Floating Cities
The first phase of the proposal is to send a robot to do the dirty work.
Digital Government
Why the US Government Should Learn to Fail Fast Like Silicon Valley
The failure mantras of Silicon Valley—“fail fast,” “fail often,” “fail forward”—have spawned a movement to view mistakes as opportunities to learn and change.
Digital Government
The big question for agencies and open data
GSA's Myehsha Boone gets at the critical question for those trying to decide what data, practically speaking, is worth sharing.
Cybersecurity
Meet the Bots that Made Half the Web’s Traffic in 2014
Bots are everywhere online—and used for both good and evil.
Digital Government
From FITARA to FISMA Reform: 5 Key Tech Bills Passed by Congress in 2014
When it comes to a few key pieces of technology and cybersecurity legislation, the 113th Congress was surprisingly fruitful.
Digital Government
Inside the quest to prevent suicides through better data
FCW investigated efforts by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to improve a joint data repository on military and veteran suicides. Something as impersonal and mundane as incomplete datasets could be exacerbating a national tragedy.
Acquisition
Iron Mountain settles with GSA over data storage suit
Firm agrees to pay $44.5 million over allegations of overcharging agencies for record storage.
Cybersecurity
The Webcam Hacking Epidemic
It'd be easy for policy makers to correct gaps in protections against remote access tools used to spy on individuals. So why haven't they?
Digital Government