Cybersecurity
Jeh Johnson's email, cyber export controls and faux phishing
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
People
Agencies caught off guard by OPM’s pay-to-play credit monitoring
OPM is passing along the cost of post-breach credit monitoring to other federal agencies, but some are wondering how it will all work.
Cybersecurity
It didn't start (and doesn't end) with OPM
The lax security that made OPM an easy target permeates government, says ICIT study.
Cybersecurity
OPM's shift in security posture raises labor law questions
OPM did not give unions a chance to bargain over the cutting off of social media and personal email accounts.
People
What Cobert brings to OPM
OMB's deputy director of management is being dispatched to deal with a troubled agency -- again.
Cybersecurity
Should the clearance system be taken away from OPM?
Two lawmakers want to find a new home for the security clearance database that was breached.
People
Archuleta out at OPM
Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director Beth Cobert will step in as acting director of the Office of Personnel Management.
Cybersecurity
Sweating the stolen data
Millions of background-check records were compromised, OPM now says. Here's the jaw-dropping range of personal data that was exposed.
Cybersecurity
OPM director refuses to resign amid new hack revelations
Officials detailed the timing of the two breaches and confirmed that they were executed by the same "actor."
Cybersecurity
OPM: 21.5M impacted by background-check breach
Agency details results of an "interagency forensic investigation," plans for assisting affected individuals.
Cybersecurity
Fixing FISMA, blaming … someone, and another lawsuit
Lawmakers wrestled with the regulatory shortcomings that helped allow the OPM breach to happen as they continued the search for someone to blame. Employee unions, on the other hand, know whom they're blaming.
Cybersecurity
A FOIA app, Chamber targets cyber, shelling out for Shell and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
HHS mirrors Google, bank regulators' IT shortcomings and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
e-QIP fallout and more phishing schemes
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Acquisition
Revealing the RATs and scoring the agencies
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
OPM yanks background check system offline
Weeks after first disclosing massive breaches, OPM has shuttered a vital background check system.
Cybersecurity
Einstein the only winner from another flaying of OPM on the Hill
A key lawmaker said he is readying fresh legislation to accelerate the cyber detection program.
Cybersecurity
OPM contractors in the crosshairs
House Oversight and Government Reform targeted OPM officials and contractors alike for their roles in the massive hack.
Cybersecurity
McCaul says OPM hack should push Senate to act on cyber
The theft of information on federal employees from government systems should provide the Senate with the urgency to pass cybersecurity legislation, according to one of the bill's key House sponsors.
Cybersecurity