Cybersecurity
Virgin Islands Bank Customers Fall Victim to Payment Card Fraud
Financial Services // Retailer
Digital Government
Make open data actually work
The public's demand for transparency means agencies must share data in ways that the average person can understand. Here's how.
Acquisition
FITARA included in compromise defense measure
Negotiators on the defense authorization bill included provisions from the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act in what they hope is the final version of the legislation.
Modernization
This New Technology Could Fall-Proof Your iPhone
The panic of dropping your iPhone may soon be a thing of the past.
Cybersecurity
Inspector: Security Holes Found in IRS Obamacare System
A core IRS system for calculating Obamacare fees for health insurers and drug manufacturer has security weaknesses
Emerging Tech
Infographic: Understanding the Grid
Here's how energy gets from the source to the socket.
Cybersecurity
Here’s Why Cybersecurity Remains a Challenge for the Justice Department
DOJ has requested millions more in funding and staffed up new divisions to specifically handle cyber investigations.
Digital Government
What Agencies Can Learn From Wall Street When it Comes to Risk Management
What lessons about risk management translate from finance to government regarding portfolios?
People
Carter would bring acquisition, tech experience to top Pentagon job
Ashton Carter, who has often had a hand in Pentagon IT issues, is rumored to be Obama's pick for Defense secretary.
People
What the USDS team is up to
As the U.S. Digital Service gets going, it is focused on HealthCare.gov, VA technology and hiring.
Digital Government
How to Get Engineers to Work for You Instead of Facebook or Google
You already have all the tools you need to recruit the best engineers for your organization.
Modernization
The Internet of Things Could Turn Your City Into One Big Wi-Fi Hotspot
Veniam aims to connect urban vehicles to an "Internet of moving things."
People
IT hiring, new Oversight staff and CBO on workforce reductions
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
Google Alumna Turned USAID Innovator Has Some ‘Crazy’ Ideas to Combat Global Poverty
Ann Mei Chang will head a new government lab for international development.
Modernization
HealthCare.gov gets a last-minute cloud storage boost
An expected spike in demand during open enrollment could have overwhelmed existing capacity of the health insurance-purchasing website, threatening a replay of its botched 2013 launch.
Cybersecurity
It takes one to know one
Feds are vulnerable to cyber fraud because of inertia, says the con man who inspired Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can."
Acquisition
What agencies want to hear when buying IT
A new study helps vendors understand what messages resonate (and tells feds how their peers prefer to be pitched).
Cybersecurity
Cyber Crooks Snatch Biotech Emails to Move Markets
Financial Services // Healthcare and Public Health
Cybersecurity
Canada’s Tax Agency Handed Reporters Details on Celebrities’ Finances and Donations
Entertainment // Government (Foreign) // Ottawa, Canada
Digital Government