Cybersecurity

Connecticut utilities hacked without disrupting services

Energy // Other Critical Infrastructure // Connecticut, United States

Digital Government

This Tech Startup Uses a Simple Formula to Decide How Much Stock to Give Employees

Social-sharing app company went salary-transparent in December, aims to 'demystify equity.'

Acquisition

GSA touts new mobile management resource

Mobile Lifecycle & Expense Management can save 25 percent or more, GSA says.

People

Rethinking (again) the role of CIO

Eighteen years after the Clinger-Cohen Act created the position, experts discuss how the job of agencies' top IT executives has changed.

People

GAO: NASA improving its project management

Auditors say acquisition needs additional attention, but NASA gets good marks for managing maturing technologies.

Digital Government

Google’s Search Juggernaut Is Showing Some Cracks

Amid the transition away from PCs to mobile devices, investors have questions.

Emerging Tech

Americans Think Drones Are Creepier Than Google Glass

People are, unsurprisingly, distrustful of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Modernization

It Took Just Four Days to Hack the Samsung Galaxy S5's Fingerprint Scanner

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is integrated with PayPal, and the fingerprint scanner is used to authorize transactions and money transfers in the device.

Cybersecurity

Is government doing too much on cyber-response?

A new report argues that private-sector firms make better first responders.

Emerging Tech

CAPTCHAs Are Becoming Security Theater

Google doesn't need us to prove our humanity with distorted text anymore -- they can simulate it now.

Modernization

The accidental database administrator

Here are five things administrators need to know to successfully manage mission-critical databases.

Digital Government

McClure leaving GSA

Longtime IT leader and 2012 Eagle award winner will retire effective May 31.

Digital Government

GSA's Dave McClure to Retire

The associate administrator of the General Services Administration's Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies was a leader in key initiatives.

Digital Government

Watch a Congressional Candidate Shoot Down a 'Government Drone'

House contender Matt Rosendale of Montana wants Big Brother out of his airspace.

Emerging Tech

The Obama Administration Is Taking Another Try at the Program That Funded Solyndra

Energy Department calls for applications for up to $4 billion in financing.

Digital Government

Your Photo Could Be Included in the FBI’s New Facial Recognition Database

The database, known as Next Generation Identification, will for the first time combine criminal and noncriminal records.