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
The Navy's cyber awakening
A departmentwide task force makes cyberspace a warfighting issue and attempts to synchronize disparate internal approaches to the challenge.
Modernization
3D Christmas challenge, a GSA cloud deal and 'improper gratuities'
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Teacher's Hacked Email Account Sends His Nude Photos to Students
Education // Web Services // California , United States
Digital Government
Exclusive: AFRICOM Plans High-Speed Circuits to Liberia
U.S. military plans to lease a 622 megabit terrestrial circuit from Europe to Liberia.
Cybersecurity
When Government is the Hacker, How Do You Protect Yourself?
FBI malware and mass government surveillance breach U.S. citizens’ privacy, tech firms say.
People
In search of cyber pros (and other IT rock stars)
FCW Editor-in-Chief Troy Schneider shares five points to remember when submitting nominations for the 2015 Federal 100 awards.
People