Cybersecurity
Homeland Security pushes pay boost for cyber pros
Cybersecurity legislation granting its wish looks likely to fail this year.
Cybersecurity
Air Force prepares to open cyberwarfare simulation center to outside users
The service expects to offer a contract for the Joint Cyberspace Operations Range by January 2013.
Digital Government
After a decade of delays, FBI agents finally get a case management system
'Sentinel' works like a Webmail system for investigations.
Modernization
Homeland Security seeks an ecofriendly, network-centric northern border plan
Environmental assessment finds installing more technology beats adding checkpoints or fencing.
Digital Government
Homeland Security to experiment with rescue drones inside the United States
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said regulating domestic unmanned aircraft is not her department’s job.
Cybersecurity
‘AC/DC virus’ attacks Iranian nuke plant; DHS issues alert to U.S. industry
Cyberattack triggers the 1990 hit ‘Thunderstruck’ as it cripples computers.
Digital Government
DHS taps big data to ferret out phony schools peddling student visas
Bogus institutions sell immigration papers under the guise of collecting tuition and fees.
Digital Government
Data analytics won’t stop a madman
Law enforcement officials lack the technology and the authority to predict and prevent mass killings.
Cybersecurity
Agencies to dole out new hardware keys for secret networks
Move follows alleged leaks about cyberwarfare.
Digital Government
FBI is on track to book faces, scars, tattoos in 2014
Questions linger about the accurate identification of criminals.
Cybersecurity
‘Mahdi’ Virus Acts Like Flame’s Unsophisticated Cousin
Researchers could not find many links between the new virus and Flame.
Digital Government
What does your tattoo say about you? The FBI wants to know.
The bureau is seeking technology that would help interpret the meaning of body art.
Digital Government
Energy pays big tech firms to speed creation of extreme supercomputer
The race is on to design machines that can keep pace with big data.
Digital Government
Feds significantly expand the use of iris-recognition technology
Biometric data to be used to catch criminals, verify identities of government employees and possibly travelers.
Digital Government
Drones outlast narco boats in Caribbean
Remotely piloted jets can linger for up to 20 hours, helping them track unpredictable drug smuggling vessels.
Cybersecurity
NSA chief plugs federal standards to regulate industry computers
Gen. Keith Alexander praises the SANS Institute for promoting 20 critical security measures.
Digital Government
DHS yanks deal to use license plate database to track illegal immigrants
Another contractor claims to provide the same service, upending the award.
Cybersecurity
Threats lurk among Pentagon’s sprawling computer networks
The Defense Department aspires to unify technology systems, contracts and cybersecurity standards.
Digital Government
DHS taps database of license plate snapshots to hunt fugitives
Homeland Security is trying to reduce the backlog of undocumented immigrants scheduled for deportation.
Cybersecurity