Cybersecurity
Cyber Costs Climb
Push to secure data and systems creates multibillion-dollar market for contractors.
Digital Government
CBP failed to follow basic security practices to protect financial systems
Administrators didn't review employees' rights to access files, enforce stringent password requirements, or block users from logging on after several failed attempts.
Cybersecurity
Scientists view cybersecurity as an intimidating conundrum
Former National Science Foundation executive says technical issues and the enormity of the task make securing the Internet and networks 'the most difficult challenge' for researchers.
Digital Government
Soundbytes: ATC Modernization, DISA and Long Commutes
A weekly roundup of comments from Nextgov.com. All comments are presented in their original, unedited form.
Digital Government
Technology designed to speed hiring often hinders the process, survey shows
HR specialists say incompatible systems and limited online tools make it difficult to match qualified candidates with jobs.
Digital Government
Agency aims to play matchmaker with new hiring tool
The national intelligence office is developing a site that would pair job applicants with suitable federal vacancies.
Digital Government
Finding Jobs for Space Shuttle Workers
Nextgov reported on Wednesday that NASA is launching a program to help those highly skilled - and highly paid - employees working on the soon-to-be-shuttered space shuttle program in Florida's "space coast" to find jobs, especially IT jobs. They may want to look just a bit of a ways south in Fort Pierce, Fla.
Ideas
It's All in How You Look at It
Virginia computers that support issuing new or updated drivers licenses in the commonwealth have been down for a week. Commonwealth officials issued a statement today trying to play down how much inconvenience this caused drivers:
Digital Government
46 Groups Recommend Blue Button
As the Obama administration showers doctors and hospitals with stimulus money, it should tell the takers to embed an icon on their subsidized e-health records that allows patients to download their records, according to a new paper backed by 46 consumer, provider, corporate, insurance and privacy groups.
Digital Government
DARPA Tries to Create the Cyborg
Ahh, computers keep getting faster and smarter, but thank goodness they still don't match up to the power of the human brain -- or I'd be out of work.
Cybersecurity
Dangers of Unused E-mail Accounts
Spammers continue to step up their games, targeting your abandoned e-mail accounts. We've all been known to carry multiple e-mail accounts, some of which we don't use, or only use for specific purposes. Spammers attempt to break into these unused or little used accounts via spear phishing or brute force attacks to obtain a user's password. Once they get into the account they begin sending spam out to the user's contacts. They do so at a very slow pace, as to not be detected.
Digital Government
VA, Markle push blue buttons to download personal health data
The Veterans Affairs Department and the Markle Foundation are promoting "blue button" applications that would allow patients to download their personal medical data from providers and insurers.
Digital Government
Former New Orleans mayor wasted money with outsourcing, IG says
Inspector general faults former Mayor Ray Nagin for outsourcing technology that increased the costs of recovery after Hurricane Katrina.
People
FDA flips switch on performance management app
The Food and Drug Administration has gone live with 40 online dashboards that track performance for more than 100 program offices.
Cybersecurity
Are you mad as hell about social media access?
A post on a social media site about blocked access draws support from others.
Digital Government
DHS offers e-mail services via private cloud
The Homeland Security Department will provide e-mail as a service through a private cloud platform to its various components and agencies as part of data-center consolidation efforts.
Digital Government
Researchers knock part of the Internet offline
A university software experiment accidentally shut down a small part of the Internet last week.
Digital Government