Digital Government
Your personal data is too public for agencies to verify
The widespread loss and theft of data on Americans has made a once popular form of remote identity proofing obsolete, and agencies need to start looking into other options.
Modernization
Deepfakes are coming and lawmakers are looking for answers
Experts worry false video and audio created by deep learning algorithms can wreak havoc during the next election, but finding those responsible and punishing them is no easy task.
Cybersecurity
House focuses on cybersecurity R&D in energy spending bill
The House Appropriations Committee approved a series of cybersecurity-related research and development initiatives that are designed to tighten up protection to the electric grid and other energy systems.
Digital Government
Funding bill boosts IRS tech
The House Appropriations committee voted up a bill that includes funds to modernize IRS systems and security and restore critical hiring and pay authorities last available in 2013.
Cybersecurity
House panel approves $408 million boost for CISA
Election security, critical infrastructure protection and CDM all received funding boosts, but disagreements on immigration loom over the bill's passage into law.
Digital Government
Former Facebook security chief: hack and leak campaigns are the new normal
The personal devices and private email accounts of campaign and political staff are difficult to protect from determined political and nation-state adversaries.
Cybersecurity
Mixed signals on China in supply chain policy
Members of industry involved in supply chain security efforts worry that international trade and other geopolitical concerns are muddying the security focus of their work.
Cybersecurity
Senator probes DOJ's safeguarding of hacking tools
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asks Attorney General Bill Barr what the Department of Justice and its component agencies are doing to keep their tools from being leaked or stolen.
Cybersecurity
Watchdog: Current pipeline security plans weak on cybersecurity, coordination
The Transportation Security Administration's plans for coordinating pipeline security incidents aren't keeping up with rising threats in cyberspace, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Cybersecurity
Are federal facial recognition programs supported by existing law?
Some members of Congress say law enforcement agencies are relying on decades-old laws to justify use of facial recognition tech.
Cybersecurity
House committee pushes for a window into cyberwar
A subcommittee mark of the upcoming National Defense Authorization Act requires the military to notify Congress when using its expanded offensive cyber authorities.
Cybersecurity
Secrecy impinges on surveillance lawsuit against NSA
Government lawyers pressed the court to throw out a lawsuit challenging its "Upstream" surveillance program, saying the plaintiffs can't prove their communications were being collected.
Cybersecurity
Why attribution is a means to an end
Law enforcement officials insist that accurately placing the blame on countries or groups who engage in destructive cyberattacks is a critical prelude to imposing more meaningful consequences.
Digital Government
Congress focuses on money and staffing in election security
The head of the Election Assistance Commission told lawmakers that it needs more money and people to play its part in defending U.S. elections against cybersecurity risks.
Cybersecurity
CDM dashboard award will lay the groundwork for AI
A new award will attempt to refashion the dashboard to better incorporate emerging technologies and make better use of the "treasure trove" of data created through CDM.
Digital Government
States, experts ask EAC for more flexibility in voting machine standards
There is concern in some quarters that the bureaucratic process outlined by the Election Assistance Commission may prevent voting machine standards from keeping up with the times.
Cybersecurity
Report: U.S. political parties need to shore up cyber
Three years after the 2016 election, major political parties in the U.S. are still displaying some sloppy digital security practices, according to a report from Security Scorecard.
Modernization
5G supply chain order worries industry, experts
Industry groups and experts want to know how rules arising from a Trump administration executive order issued will keep insecure gear out of the U.S. telecommunications supply chain.
Modernization
Supply chain task force lays groundwork for new restrictions
Work by the ICT Supply Chain Task Force will feed into new Commerce Department regulations on foreign-directed threats to the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure.
Cybersecurity