Cybersecurity
Security questions: The biggest joke in online identity verification
When hackers broke into Mat Honan's Apple account last week, they couldn't answer his security questions. And Apple didn't even care.
Emerging Tech
Software runs the world--how scared should we be that so much is bad?
When software works, you can buy an airline ticket and sell a stock. When it fails, you can miss a flight and a bank can lose a billion dollars. Do we respect the power of software as much as we should?
Modernization
What Mitt Romney's VP app learned from Zynga
The presidential candidate's new app is addictive and effective.
Digital Government
Can Wikipedia foretell Romney's VP announcement?
Entries for Sarah Palin and Joe Biden both saw spikes in edits in the days before their selections.
Modernization
Homeland Security to fund next-generation emergency wireless service
DHS wants low-cost, interconnected video and data systems for first responders.
Modernization
House Dems battle for social media supremacy
Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado took home MVP, compiling 31,578 new Facebook fans, Twitter followers and YouTube subscribers combined.
Modernization
Dems have new mobile app for convention
The move comes a week after Obama for America released its app.
Modernization
In-Q-Tel enters venture with UK firm to develop transceiver technology
Goal is to boost data-sharing between companies, agencies.
Modernization
Many managers don’t know their agencies’ cloud computing budget or goals
IT and business executives know cloud is important, but they remain hazy on details.
Cybersecurity
Reuters blogs hacked with fake story about Syrian rebel retreat
Wire says it thinks it knows who is responsible for the hack.
Modernization
Government agencies spending more on cloud, but some execs are fuzzy on the details
One finding of a new study: Many CFOs, despite their financial control, are only somewhat familiar with the details of their agencies' cloud strategies.
Modernization
Take the pain out of website management
Here’s why the Obama administration’s new digital strategy directs agencies to adopt a content management system sooner rather than later.
Modernization
FCC chairman lobbies Pentagon for more spectrum
Genachowski has made it one of his signature goals to "unleash" more spectrum for mobile broadband and manage Pentagon spectrum expectations.
Modernization
Was the EPA data breach a failure of cybersecurity 101?
A malicious e-mail attachment broke through security at the EPA, exposing private information of 8,000 people. Are other agencies any more secure?
Modernization
DISA details Defensewide wireless and mobile device plan
System will include global service, device management and an apps store.
Modernization
Pentagon shutters Joint Tactical Radio System program office
After 15 years and $15 billion, the program failed to deliver radios to the battlefield.
Modernization
Networx transition deemed nearly complete
Almost 99 percent of services have moved to the Networx program, according to a GSA official.
Modernization
Social media plays a growing role in open source intelligence, experts say
Analysts increasingly see value in monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other popular communications.
Digital Government
After a decade of delays, FBI agents finally get a case management system
'Sentinel' works like a Webmail system for investigations.
Modernization