Cybersecurity

Hacker compromises Google, Yahoo secure site credentials

Government (U.S.) // Web Services // New Delhi, India

Cybersecurity

10,000 guests at Houston luxury retreat exposed to ID theft

Hospitality // Texas, United States

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.