Cybersecurity
Treasure map, biometric ID, DISA devices and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
PreCheck, Global Entry programs pass milestones
TSA continues to expand traveler programs and work through data hiccups.
Cybersecurity
DARPA wants smarter ways to measure brain activity
Agency hopes to detect activity in a single neuron, from a distance -- no surgery or tissue-singeing allowed.
Cybersecurity
TSA moves toward e-check of IDs
Electronic checks of drivers' licenses and other documents now checked visually by TSA agents against passengers' boarding passes is intended to speed up security lines.
Cybersecurity
For IG, the future is now at USPS
Inspector General David Williams takes a broad view of his role at the perennially cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service, including the development of new technologies and revenue streams.
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'Fingerprinting' tool challenges privacy safeguards for federal websites
The difficulty of maintaining user anonymity in the face of canvas fingerprinting poses a challenge to agencies trying to adhere to privacy standards set by OMB.
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Biometric database, software inventory, smallpox and a prescreening milestone
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Streamlining storage, an Adobe CTO, a China cyber offer and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
CBP biometric test center set to open
The Maryland facility will test devices that record biometric data from travelers exiting the country.
Cybersecurity
Does TWIC really work?
Senators grill port security experts on whether the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program is worth the time and money.
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NSA employs ever-improving facial-recognition technology
The National Security Agency’s revelation highlights the growing sophistication of facial-recognition tools available to government.
Cybersecurity
China indictments spotlight military's vulnerability
China's targeting of U.S. military know-how is a fact of life for the defense industrial base, which hopes a longstanding information-sharing framework will be enough to ward off threats.
Cybersecurity
Details emerge on scope of FBI's identification system
The next-generation database will contain as many as 52 million facial images, including millions taken for non-criminal investigations.
Cybersecurity
Feds' facial recognition systems fall outside code of conduct
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration's code of conduct will apply only to commercial uses, at least to start.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon ponders going mobile with CAC
Any solution in this "very complicated field" will have to reach beyond the Defense Department.
Cybersecurity
After 17 years, still no biometric exit system
Falling costs might make a mandate from 1996 easier to fulfill.
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Pondering the pros and cons of an ID hub
A single federated ID would make tracking, verifying and authenticating identities easier, but it also could make the public nervous, said some IT managers participating in the hub project.
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The fight against biometric spoofing
Make-up, photographs and digital recorders are tools in the biometric hacker's toolbox, but efforts are underway to make systems more resistant to them.
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Biometrics go mobile
The iPhone's fingerprint scanner could usher in a new era of authentication for mobile devices, but agencies are a long way from abandoning pass codes.
Cybersecurity
DHS takes step forward on ID management
Contract with HP Enterprise Services will support DHS's internal security capabilities.
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