Cybersecurity
10,000 guests at Houston luxury retreat exposed to ID theft
Hospitality // Texas, United States
Cybersecurity
Chinese man accused of nicking data on C-17 U.S. military cargo plane
Defense Industrial Base
Digital Government
State Department Downplays Extremist Seizure of Low-Grade Uranium in Iraq
ISIS has control of uranium compounds, Baghdad warns.
Cybersecurity
Chinese-Made Inventory Scanners Allow Hackers to Track Shipments
Malware traced to China was found on tools at seven shipping and logistics firms.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Piggyback Off US Marshals Leak, Unnerve Wilmer Valderrama and Contaminate Videos
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
Plastic surgeon provided a woman’s before-and-after photos to a TV station
Healthcare and Public Health // Utah, United States
Emerging Tech
Amazon Wants Early Permission to Launch its Delivery Drones
Just don’t expect one at your front porch anytime soon.
Cybersecurity
Terrorist tweets, spectrum modeling, gun tracking and video conferencing
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Ideas
Platform-as-a-Service: What It Is and How It Could Help Your Agency
If you're not already using PaaS, you probably will be soon.
Cybersecurity
Should Feds Have Been Told About the OPM Hack?
Officials say they have no proof personal data was exposed.
People
ITI adds Hill veteran to government affairs team
Shannon Taylor joined the Information Technology Industry Council from the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Emerging Tech
Where to View This Weekend's East Coast Rocket Launch
On Sunday, set your sights east to catch the fiery ascent of a resupply for the International Space Station.
Digital Government
Here’s Why You May Never Be Truly Anonymous in a Big Data World
All de-identified data may not be so anonymous after all.
Digital Government
What Happened to America's Most Important Arctic Ships?
The nation’s fleet of ice-cutting ships is getting older, and congressional action to modernize it isn’t moving at breakneck speed.
People
How IT and accounting can play nice
Financial shared services and Data Act compliance will drive more CIO/CFO collaboration. Here's how it should work.
Cybersecurity
No thawing of cyber tensions on Kerry’s Beijing trip
A "frank exchange" of views between the U.S. and China yielded no concrete results on the cyber-attack front.
Digital Government
The Pentagon Is Well on Its Way to Building a Human Memory Chip
DARPA has teamed up with several universities to develop and build a very small, implantable, wireless neural interface device.
Modernization
Beijing Thinks the <span>i</span>Phone is a Threat to China’s National Security
The phone's Frequent Locations function, which tracks the exact places you have been and the amount of time you spent there, is capturing "extremely sensitive data," says Chinese government TV.
Acquisition
Government contests come of age
Steve Kelman looks at the amazing growth of agency "challenges" over the past decade, and the valuable lessons gleaned in a recent study.
Modernization