Digital Government

GAO upends Justice's identity card project

The department picked a contractor for handling network logon credentials without considering the best value, the watchdog agency concluded.

Modernization

Spies exchange tips in the cloud

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Digital Government

FBI nets cyber informants with hacktivist sting

Some hackers have grown disillusioned with radical groups' tactics, including alleged plans to target Israel's industrial systems.

Cybersecurity

Pentagon taps McAfee, Northrop Grumman to teach military cyber pros

The program is shielding Defense networks from WikiLeaks-like data spills.

Cybersecurity

Standards body releases e-health hack calculator

Financial loss could be the best impetus for fixing poor security hygiene, ANSI suggests.

Modernization

Cloud computing's success hinges on rapid certification

The FedRAMP accreditation program aims to quickly approve security controls of Web-based services.

Modernization

Major update to governmentwide cyber manual takes on WikiLeaks

NIST's compendium of data security standards tackles supply chain risks, cloud privacy and smartphone wiping.

Cybersecurity

NSA Trailblazer Paul Bartock, 1954-2012

Cybersecurity

Researchers suggest U.S, China engage on cyberattack issues

A new report proposes China and the United States discuss taboo hacking topics, such as cyberattacks, to cool cybersecurity relations before the dispute becomes as explosive as global finance.

Digital Government

DHS pinpoints government computers set to lose Internet access

Federal agencies are taking steps to extract the DNSChanger virus that could cause disconnections on March 8.

Digital Government

Pentagon-inspired border plan elicits congressional support

Key lawmakers say Homeland Security's latest surveillance bid appears more fitting than the defunct SBInet.