Cybersecurity
Feds: You Need to Fix Your TSP Passwords This Weekend
The federal retirement program website is changing its policy to stop giving identity thieves clues about how to crack employee passwords.
Modernization
The Fingerprint Scanner You Don't Want on Your Smartphone
The FBI plans to offer agents smartphone apps for checking a suspect's biometric data against information in criminal records.
Digital Government
Is a Biometric Immigration Exit System Worth $7 Billion?
And is the technology even there for it?
Digital Government
It's Hard to Say If This Baltimore Crime Lab Whittled Down Its DNA Sample Backlog
Federally funded lab's databases weren't linked, so progress was impossible to determine, IG finds.
Cybersecurity
Intel Firm Links Ukraine Energy Debt With Potential Cyber Assault
Recorded Future drilled into a wide range of Web data to create a speculative timeline of potential network attacks.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Pull Down a Virginia Cloud, Spy on Syrian Rebels and Get Lost
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Digital Government
Recent TSA Scanner Upgrade Protected Your Privacy but Didn't Improve the System
False alarms may cause screening officers to conduct unnecessary pat-downs.
Cybersecurity
Feds Would Have a Hard Time Keeping Zero-Days Under Wraps
The White House has established an interagency process to vet the pros and cons of disclosing future vulnerabilities.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Revive AOL, Reveal Obama’s Airport Passcodes and Love Soccer
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Digital Government
Feds Tap Data Surveillance Firm for Money Laundering Investigations
The five-year sole source contract with Palantir will support Justice, Treasury and Homeland Security.
Cybersecurity
Government Employees Cause Nearly 60% of Public Sector Cyber Incidents
Misfired emails and other errors account for most of the compromised data.
Cybersecurity
Deltek Breach Raises Questions About Widespread Hacking
Feds won't confirm company assertions about the attack, which affected 80,000 employees of government contractors.
Cybersecurity
Heartbleed Means HealthCare.gov Users Must Reset Passwords
The online marketplace's homepage directs users to change their login information.
Emerging Tech
You Could Virtually Hover Over a Battlefield With Oculus
The virtual reality headset is ready for action, software exec says.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Scour Boob Job Records, Identify Anonymous, and Hold Up Nebraska Bank
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
How to Tell If Hackers Are Attacking Your Utility System Through Heartbleed
DHS issues bulletin listing 14 hallmarks of a Heartbleed breach.
Digital Government
DHS Wants to Recycle Its Own Computers
Department thinks it can do a better job than GSAXcess.
Modernization
From the Cloud to Your Pentagon-Issued Phone
The Defense Department plans to augment cloud services to work on mobile devices, a Defense Department acquisition manager said.
Cybersecurity
Qualifying Cyber Command Staff Is Harder Than You Think
Coast Guard instructs computer whizzes from various educational backgrounds to reach the same proficiency level.
Cybersecurity
Federal Websites Avoid Heartbleed Risks, DHS Says
But Akamai systems powering the Obamacare website contained the data-leaking vulnerability.
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