Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity expert: Stuxnet attack wasn't 'game-changing'
Threats to computer networks are evolving, but there haven't been any 'completely surprising' developments, Adam Meyers says.
Cybersecurity
Forecast for cybersecurity bills looks cloudy in reconvened Congress
Lawmakers still are grappling with industry's role in safeguarding computer networks and the electric grid, New York Democrat notes.
Cybersecurity
Government taps an uneasy alliance with hackers
Agencies turn to the computer underworld for help shoring up their cyber defenses.
Cybersecurity
The Pentagon-Contractor Handshake
The Pentagon extended a firm handshake to IT security contractors on Oct. 20, pledging to strengthen the role of private sector in protecting defense networks - even as the White House stressed the need to trim back on defense contracting fat earlier this year.
Cybersecurity
Wikileaks Communications Infrastructure Attacked?
Wikileaks <a href="http://twitter.com/wikileaks">announced</a> that its "communications infrastructure is currently under attack" on Oct. 20, as the Pentagon <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69G19520101017">prepares to review</a> as many as 400,000 leaked Iraq war documents, expected to be published by the whistleblower site this month.
Ideas
Wikileaks' OGov Lessons
What the ongoing furor over the WikiLeaks phenomenon has revealed, <a href="http://www.thenation.com/print/article/154780/wikileaks-and-hacktivist-culture">writes</a> Peter Ludlow, author of <em>Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias</em>, "is that the media and government agencies believe there is a single protagonist to be concerned with--something of a James Bond villain, if you will."
Ideas
The Cyberwar Echo Chamber
Pentagon officials are starting to repeat one another's cyberwar rhetoric. Hello, is this an echo chamber?
Ideas
Iran, State, an App and Fingerpointing
Technology designed to circumvent Internet censorship by Iranian officials has been found to be riddled with security loopholes, raising questions on how the State Department could have approved it for distribution in Iran.
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Cementing the State-Silicon Valley Relationship
State Department Policy Planning staff official Jared Cohen announced this week that he would be leaving the administration to head a <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20015705-265.html">new "think/do tank" at Google</a>, a move that cements the growing link between Silicon Valley and the State Department.
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Data.gov To House New APIs
A series of new application programming interfaces - tools that facilitate interaction between datasets and other software programs - will make it easier for developers to play and interact with the content on <a href="http://www.data.gov/">Data.gov</a>, the online repository of federal information and a cornerstone of the open government initiative.
Ideas
Ready For Telework?
Federal employees may want to telework, but only a small number have access to the resources and support necessary to do so, according to a new survey.
Digital Government
Supreme Court upholds search of a police officer's messages
Justices avoid tackling the broader question of how much privacy government employees can expect when texting on work devices.
Ideas
Twitter Seeks "Government Liaison"
Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=oBbkVfwL,Job">announced</a> this week that it would be hiring its first DC-based "government liaison" to boost government presence on the social networking site. This sparked off an intense debate over the kind of person it would take to get the government to embrace social media.
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