Modernization
Border agency scouts for smartphone accessory to screen people and packages
Personnel would carry docking stations on their belts to scan fingerprints and travel documents.
Digital Government
Cisco takes on rogue suppliers with device to ID counterfeit parts
The computer equipment manufacturer has long struggled to keep agencies from installing Chinese-made bogus components.
Cybersecurity
Power grid hackers are of greater concern than influential report indicates, DHS official says
Authors of the 2007 National Academies study pushed to declassify the paper this month because utilities remain a terrorist target.
Cybersecurity
FBI warns of holiday online flash sales operated by ID thieves
Shopping apps and social media 'friends' also threaten gift-givers.
Cybersecurity
TSA drops ‘insider threat’ label from spyware buy
Agency hopes modifying name of anti-leak tool will broaden competition.
Cybersecurity
Report: Fifty-eight percent of Energy computers went months without bug fixes
Cyber experts say that figure isn’t surprising.
Digital Government
Obama directive would allow preemptive cyber strikes
October secret policy makes a distinction between ‘network defense’ and ‘cyber operations,’ report says.
Modernization
Twelve-year, $430 million effort fails to get DHS radio users on the same frequency
Only one employee tested knew how to tune into the channel.
Cybersecurity
Do we need cyber cops for cars?
Regulators plan ‘rule-making ready’ research on vehicle control system security.
Cybersecurity
Former feds take vital cyber skills to foreign companies
Critics worry that Chinese telecom may be exploiting lax post-employment rules.
Digital Government
DHS tries monitoring social media for signs of biological attacks
The $3 million yearlong test follows the July release of a White House strategy to modernize biosurveillance.
Emerging Tech
FBI builds facial recognition app
Software for handhelds would provide ‘the biometric identification power of the U.S. government in real time, at any point on the planet.’
Cybersecurity
Election takeaway: Emergencies aren’t the time for experimenting
Displaced New Jersey voters continue to cast ballots.
Cybersecurity
New Jersey email votes shouldn’t be counted yet, experts say
Displaced voters are charting new electoral territory.
Modernization
Facebook IPO forced SEC to relocate filings to the cloud
Regulator’s website could not handle public interest in the social titan’s financials ahead of the May 17 stock debut.
Cybersecurity
Governments and companies band together to push cyber protections
Organizations that fail to follow the protocols could be more vulnerable to lawsuits.
Cybersecurity
Obama and Romney could rewrite cyber org charts
Romney might concentrate U.S. network security within the Pentagon and drop civilian regulators.
Modernization
Military sends aerial maps of Sandy damage to FEMA smartphones
Responders can see the imagery on mobile devices even when cell service drops.
Digital Government
Pentagon’s roving intel center helps emergency responders
When civilian officials call, Defense dispatches mobile geospatial data center packed with communications gear, mapping equipment and analysts.
Cybersecurity
FBI starts new initiative to name hackers
The bureau’s plan dovetails with a Pentagon warning that intruders will be identified and retaliated against.
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