Cybersecurity
Why Some Agencies Want a One-Size-Fits-All Policy for Mobile Devices
There are no uniform BYOD security requirements for tapping into the cloud.
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Why Your Smartphone Won't Be Faster Anytime Soon
Thanks to a lawsuit from TV stations, the FCC is delaying an airwave auction until 2016.
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A New Tool in Humanitarian Relief: Texting
Understanding how Ebola is impacting the food supply is far easier when a robot is running the survey.
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USCIS looks to the cloud for E-Verify
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is considering shifting data processing for the employee verification system to the cloud while maintaining the public-facing Web presence.
Cybersecurity
DHS Expects to Outsource Employment Verification Checks to the Cloud
Draft contract states ID confirmation for "MyE-Verify" would be hosted in a remote facility.
Modernization
The Queen Is Now Tweeting
The official account had been building up to the tweet throughout the day, highlighting the 88-year-old monarch’s past technological milestones.
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Will This Google App Really Reinvent Email?
Google’s Inbox is not an email app. It is a personal assistant, a tool for reminders, and a way to quickly scan incoming information all in one.
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A mountain of net neutrality comments, a privacy paradox, ransomware warnings and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
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Social Security wants new outreach channels
The communications solutions would include chat, video messaging, secure screen sharing and ways for users to send attachments.
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Moving to the cloud (or finding reasons to wait)
A new survey of federal cloud efforts finds a number of pitfalls, both real and perceived, as agencies migrate to a cloud services provider.
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It takes DISA 3.5 hours to activate a single classified mobile phone -- here's why
Over-the-air provisioning remains a challenge for classified mobile devices.
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Digital government, openness and open cloud -- new cornerstones of democracy
An open cloud -- supporting open source, open standards and interoperability -- can drive innovation and boost citizen participation in government.
Cybersecurity
Ex-Wife of Former Cop Allegedly Used Mobile Spyware for ID Fraud Racket
Her secret cellphone recordings are evidence in the case against a one-time California local police commander.
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FTC's newest techie, a NOAA staffer indictment and more bad news for USIS
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
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CDM-FedRAMP union not on the calendar... yet
The structure of continuous diagnostics and mitigation services complicates coupling the process to FedRAMP.
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FAA seeks digital tool to aid investigations
The FAA wants to buy a commercial off-the-shelf forensic case management software tool.
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Workforce, infrastructure and avoiding future crashes: Q&A with Greg Ambrose
FCW sat down recently for an exclusive interview with Greg Ambrose, the State Department's director of consular systems and technology, who talked about how his office is trying to prevent a repeat of the malfunction its visa and passport database experienced July 20.
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Is the Chinese Government Hacking Every iPhone in the Country?
China has an estimated 100 million iPhone users, and all of them could be vulnerable
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Mobile Devices Will Transform How Government Fieldwork Gets Done
IPads and iPhones can do more than make field workers more efficient in creating reports and reducing paperwork.
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