Cybersecurity

Should You Need a License to Practice Cybersecurity?

The government should sponsor a national body to ensure cyber professionals are qualified for their jobs, a military expert says.

Cybersecurity

Senate Defense Bill Unearths NSA ‘Sharkseer’ Program

Lawmakers want to drop $30 million on an obscure National Security Agency cybersecurity program.

Digital Government

Senate Defense Bill Mulls Bonuses for Cyber Pros

Legislation also directs the services to consider if the cyber battleground warrants new career fields.

Cybersecurity

Hackers Stalk a Utility; Promote Godzilla

Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.

Cybersecurity

Survey: Abuse of Network Access Privileges Is Rampant

Agencies are more concerned about insiders leaking citizens’ and partner organizations’ information than their own business data.

Cybersecurity

Why It's Hard to Run a Background Check Through the Cloud

The FBI has stringent regulations for cloud companies that want to provide remote access to criminal records.

Cybersecurity

Justice Is Fast-Tracking Cyber Hires

Department officials are using special rules to fill vacancies more quickly.

Cybersecurity

FCC Employees, Is Your Internet Running Sluggish Today?

Some website operators are slowing FCC staff's access to their sites in protest of potential paid Internet fast lane regulations.

Cybersecurity

New NIST Guidance: Don't Make Security an Afterthought

Protections for critical systems will be baked into technology engineering from the get-go, under new standards.

Cybersecurity

German iPhone Hackers Pledge to Fund Snowden

The Chaos Computer Club, or CCC, aims to promote technical research and social issues, including privacy.

Cybersecurity

It Took Feds 13 Days to Unravel a TSP Cyber Hoax Perpetrated by... Feds

Documents acquired by Nextgov show how retirement fund officials scrambled to dissect a misguided Army cybersecurity exercise.