Digital Government
DHS chief plans changes to terror alert system
Secretary Jeh Johnson is planning modifications to the terrorism alert system to make it more responsive to murkier threats and is considering changes to the K-1 visa program.
Cybersecurity
DHS looking to biometrics, more shared info on VWP
DHS is proposing changes to the Visa Waiver Program that would expand the use of biometrics, the sharing of information with Interpol and modifications to existing background check databases.
Digital Government
Warner: Visa waiver data troubling in light of Paris attacks
A reciprocal travel program with 38 participating countries allows for visa-free visits, but a key U.S. senator warns of troubling gaps in the security data.
Cybersecurity
What a big Navy breach taught the Army
The Army had been paying close attention to the Navy's operation to drive Iranian hackers from the unclassified portion of the service's intranet.
Cybersecurity
Why candidates are missing the point on cyber
Hacking China back is not the solution to American cyber vulnerability, experts warn. Voters need to start demanding that presidential candidates take a deeper look at the issue.
Acquisition
Pacific trade deal could mean more work for federal CIOs
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement's provisions on government procurement would open new supplier markets to federal buyers, but will likely require more due diligence.
Cybersecurity
NIST demystifies whitelisting, Pelosi leads trip to China and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Industry says it's fed up with feds' no hack-back rules
Battered by cyberattacks, the private sector wants to know when the government will take the fight to the adversary -- or at least let companies retaliate on their own.
Cybersecurity
DHS chief says critical vulnerabilities greatly reduced
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson praised agencies' progress on network security, saying nearly 99 percent of identified problems have been fixed since May.
Acquisition
Chaffetz wants to rein in stingrays, GSA hits OASIS milestone and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Shoring up supply chain security
Supply chain measures should address gaps in policy but not discriminate against products from a certain country, according to a new report from the Council on Foreign Relations.
Cybersecurity
Former NSA chief: Data manipulation an 'emerging art of war'
Adversaries' ability to manipulate the content of stored data, a phenomenon that is high on U.S. officials' radar, is an "emerging art of war in cyberspace," former NSA director and retired Gen. Keith Alexander told FCW.
Cybersecurity
DHS chief defends China cyber accord
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told lawmakers it was too soon to tell whether a recent cyber accord with Beijing was altering Chinese behavior in cyberspace.
Cybersecurity
VA's Hickey resigns, OMB seeks cyber specialist and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Fed employee, service member IDs hacked, given to ISIS
The U.S. is blaming a shadowy foreign hacker for sharing stolen data on more than 1,000 feds and U.S. service members with Islamic State militants.
Cybersecurity
Webb: Cyber warfare biggest daily threat to U.S.
Although cybersecurity did not figure prominently in the first Democratic debate, long-shot candidate Jim Webb did single out cyber warfare as an acute threat to national security.
Cybersecurity
Senate panel skeptical about U.S.-China cyber accord
Intel and defense chiefs defend the administration's cyber deal with China, but key lawmakers are skeptical.
Cybersecurity
The coming private cyber 'war'
Will U.S. companies, fed up with getting hacked and not getting the government backup they want, launch cyberattacks against foreign actors – and would that qualify as “warfare”?
Cybersecurity
Intel chiefs say cyber norms, deterrence strategy still elusive
DNI James Clapper told lawmakers that absent a clear U.S. cyber deterrence policy, hacks of the magnitude of the OPM intrusion will continue.
Modernization