Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity report coming soon
The Obama administration expects to make public in the coming days the results of its 60-day cybersecurity review, according to the official who led that evaluation.
Digital Government
Microsoft offers secure Windows ... but only to the government
Wired: Threat Level
Digital Government
Veterans frustrated over inaccessible, slow online benefits system
New site to receive applications to help pay for veterans' education under the new GI bill becomes overloaded on first day.
Cybersecurity
Industry: protecting cyberspace calls for financial incentives
Excessive oversight stifles public-private collaboration to protect networks, lawmakers told.
Digital Government
Bipartisan support builds for bailout tracking database
Current TARP Web site lacks comprehensive information on activity outside Treasury.
Digital Government
Senators want congressional research available to the public
Bills making reports accessible online failed in the past, but the resolution has more chance of passing the Senate because of Obama's push for transparency.
Digital Government
What Feds Need Masks?
During a Thursday afternoon Web cast on the swine flu with top federal officials from the Health and Human and Services Department, the Homeland Security Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano received an e-mailed question from a Transportation Security Administration worker wondering about the use of face masks.
Digital Government
The Swine Flu Web Talk Show
The Obama administration has deployed all kinds of nifty <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/04/fighting_swine_flu_online.php>Web tools</a> to inform the public about the current outbreak of swine flu - which the Health and Human and Services Department now calls the H1N1 variant of influenza - including a Web cast this afternoon with top federal officials in a format most Americans find comfortable: a talk show.
Ideas
For Google, Public Not Always Public
Google this week piloted a new <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/adding-search-power-to-public-data.html">feature</a> that, according to the company, "makes it easy to find and compare public data," but, in reality, Google itself can't find a lot of the public data out there.
People