Cybersecurity

Video: What to Know About Ransomware and Agile Development

Nextgov’s Mohana Ravindrinath shares the FBI's ransomware education efforts.

Cybersecurity

Ransomware 101: FBI's Education Effort

The bureau has seen an uptick in this type of cyberthreat over the last couple months.

Modernization

DHS Looks for Ways to Protect Mobile Devices

The agency is thinking harder about securing its own smartphones and tablets, including from apps that might activate the microphone or camera to eavesdrop, or pull users' call logs and messages without their consent.

Modernization

3 Steps to Breaking Through the Federal Security Status Quo

Big data solutions, machine learning and advanced analytics may seem like a bridge too far for some public sector agencies, but time is not on their side to maintain the status quo.

Cybersecurity

The New Economics of Cybercrime

Digital thieves’ most crucial adaptation in recent years has little to do with their technical tools and everything to do with their business model.

Cybersecurity

The Computer Virus That Haunted Early AIDS Researchers

The first-ever ransomware attack was delivered on a floppy disk.

Cybersecurity

The Internet of Things Means Hospitals Are More Hackable Than Ever. The VA is Prepared.

With construction manuals tailored to smart buildings, the Veterans Affairs Department seems prepared for the day when bugs infect its hospitals.

Cybersecurity

DHS: Agencies Reported 321 Cases of Potential Ransomware

In all cases, the "ransomware" infections were neutralized without agencies having to pay up.

Cybersecurity

CORRECTED: The Ransomware Threat to Agencies

Ransomware is running rampant across systems in state and local government, businesses and homes across the country.

Ideas

5 Cyber Risk Trends for 2016

These are the top themes CIOs and CISOs should have on their radar in the new year.