Cybersecurity
NSA Surveillance is About to go on Trial. Here's What You Need to Know
More than a year after Edward Snowden’s disclosures, an Appeals Court will weigh the government’s bulk collection of U.S. phone records.
Digital Government
How a 1983 Plane Crash Helped Speed Up Civilian Use of GPS
The Reagan administration sped up the implementation of location-finding services for civilian use after the Soviet military shot down a passenger aircraft.
Emerging Tech
Why Self-Driving Buses -- Not Cars -- Are the Future of Transportation
The autonomous car will not be nearly as autonomous as its champions would have you believe.
Digital Government
Does Anybody Really Know How Many Cyber Professionals the Government Needs?
Quantifying the precise cyber talent gap remains an inexact science. Can a single federal cyber jobs database help?
Acquisition
Accenture 'confident' about open enrollment
The firm does not expect a repeat of the problems that plagued the HealthCare.gov website a year ago but acknowledges that challenges lie ahead.
Digital Government
An Outdoorsy Plea for Open Federal Campsite Data
Recreation.gov needs an API requirement, outdoorsy companies say.
Cybersecurity
Teacher’s Hacked Email Account Sends His Nude Photos to Students
Ex-lover of California educator broke into his school account and mailed indecent images.
Cybersecurity
GSA IT gets privacy impact assessment policy
IT program managers and system owners will be responsible for ensuring that the systems under their jurisdiction undergo a privacy impact assessment.
Modernization
How to launch a successful API initiative
IT professionals can create security and access models that transform APIs from unwieldy legacy apps to self-defending services.
Modernization
Finding nukes faster
Sandia has tested a new lightweight, portable technology that can image an entire building at a glance.
Cybersecurity
Surface Pro is OK, program inventories are not, and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Pittsburgh Family Terrorized By Hackers Online and At Their Front Door
Financial Services // Healthcare and Public Health
Cybersecurity
Australia’s Version of Healthcare.gov Exposed Patient Data Multiple Times
Government (Foreign) // Healthcare and Public Health // Sydney, Australia
Cybersecurity
Hackers Demand Bitcoin, Expose Silk Road Judge and Shellshock City of Mobile
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
Navy Takes on Internet of Things with New Task Force
"Task Force Cyber Awakening" will draw from the head U.S. Cyber Command's reaction strategy to a major Navy computer system hack.
Cybersecurity
The Ubiquity of Cyber-Espionage
First Look Media's Morgan Marquis-Boire and Crowdstrike's Dmitri Alperovitch on why nation-states are the hackers we should be most afraid of
Modernization
The FBI's Secret House Meeting to Get Access to Your iPhone
The administration argues that encryption is making it difficult for police to catch dangerous criminals.
Digital Government
Army Wants Better Teeth Tracking
The Army is seeking new dental software. It needs to have dynamic scheduling capabilities, according to contracting docs.
Cybersecurity