People
NIST recommends against NSA-influenced standards
Users should hold off on a standard approved years ago while NIST and the public get another chance to evaluate it.
Cybersecurity
ICE-developed app snares child-porn suspect
Authorities arrested a man wanted on pornography and drug charges just 36 hours after information went out over a new app.
Cybersecurity
Health Agency Watchdog Doesn’t Have Time to Vet Obamacare Cyber Designs
'We are still trying to figure out what's the best use of our resources,' IG official says.
Digital Government
Shooting at Navy's largest system command
Fatalities are confirmed as one or more gunmen open fire at the Navy Yard.
Emerging Tech
Analysis: The Internet of Things Will Save the U.S. From the Great Stagnation
It takes the Internet out of the world of abstraction and into industries—manufacturing, energy, transportation.
Digital Government
What not to do with your data
Two new books help map out the danger zones of data visualization, and of the datasets themselves.
People
Crafting a winning Fed 100 nomination
FCW will open this year's Fed 100 nominations soon. Here are some tips on how to give your nominations their best chance at impressing our judges.
Cybersecurity
India computer scientists accused of leaking source code to rival
Technology // Hyderabad, India
Cybersecurity
Teen collected $50,000 a month managing sophisticated cybercrime ring
Entertainment // Financial Services // Web Services
Cybersecurity
How to Keep NSA From Getting Between You and Your Googling
There are ways around the man in the middle.
Digital Government
Attendance Triples at Archives Event That Was Forced Online by Sequestration
Virtual genealogy fair proves far more popular -- and cheaper -- than Washington-based onsite version.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Strike Hackers, Expose Fellow Military Staff, Skewer Global Security Firm
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Digital Government
The Law that Gave Us the Modern Internet, and the Campaign to Kill It
Ever heard of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act? It gave birth to the social web. Here's why we need more laws just like it.
Digital Government
The Brogrammer Effect: Women Are a Small (and Shrinking) Share of Computer Workers
In 1990, more than 30 percent of computer workers were women. Now it's just 27 percent.
People
Agencies can learn from stimulus' data transparency
GAO recommends other agencies adopt the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board practices of using single government-wide identifiers, and of standardizing data reporting requirements.
Emerging Tech
Video: The Future of Personal Drone Navigation Is Here
For the particularly cartographically challenged.
Digital Government
Some Managers Hope the Next Administration Will Abandon Telework
Would $12 billion in savings change their minds?
Emerging Tech
Biofuel Researchers See Promise in Panda Dung
The microbes in the guts of these gentle giants could make alternative fuel production so much easier.
Cybersecurity
Sensor overload? How the Internet of Things will increase security risks
Sensors, which become more numerous by the day, offer intruders another point of entry into devices and Internet-connected appliances.
People