Cybersecurity

Rapper Snoop Dogg joins cybercrime fight

Get ready to bust a rhyme against cyber crime with a contest cosponsored by Symantec's Norton and rapper Snoop Dogg.

Cybersecurity

Are you mad as hell about social media access?

A post on a social media site about blocked access draws support from others.

Digital Government

Would Patton survive in today's PowerPoint military?

Would Patton or MacArthur survive in the modern military's PowerPoint culture? Some of our readers doubt it.

Digital Government

Drone helicopter violates DC airspace

The Navy admits it lost control of a drone helicopter for half an hour in restricted airspace in Washington, D.C.

Digital Government

PowerPoint, Firefox, other apps at risk from Windows vulnerability

Exploits are already being published for newly confirmed security hole, which results from a Dynamic Link Library flaw. Hundreds of apps could be affected, and they would have to be patched individually.

Modernization

Feds should watch Oracle lawsuit against Google

Oracle has sued Google over the use of Java in Google's Android operating system.

Modernization

Dead government Web sites haunt the CyberCemetery

Defunct government Web sites can be found at the CyberCemetery, a project of the University of North Texas and the Government Printing Office.

Cybersecurity

CIA, Google fund Web analysis firm

In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures are investing in Recorded Future, a company whose technology monitors the Web in real time and develops predictions of future events from that content.

Digital Government

The 7 people who can restart the Internet

Call them this era's Magnificent Seven. Seven people around the world hold the keys to the Internet, uniquely charged to restart the global network should a terrorist attack, hacking event or other calamity put it out of commission.

Digital Government

Buzz Factor

These were the most-read stories on FCW.com for the past two weeks.

Digital Government

Does filtering adult Web sites work?

Does software to block adult content and other objectional material really work? In past years such programs have been knocked for blocking legitimate Web sites along with the nasty ones -- such as screening out breast-cancer information sites along with nubile young vixens.

Digital Government

DARPA seeks young blood

DARPA is accepting proposals for its next Computer Science Study Group.

Digital Government

Pick the best White House app

Cast your vote in a White House contest to develop the best smartphone app for fighting childhood obesity.

Digital Government

Is your smart phone infected with malware?

An informal survey suggests that 18 percent of smart phones may be infected with viruses and spyware. Is yours? How would you know?

Digital Government

6 villains of Gov 2.0

Blogger Steve Radick identifies six types of people who impede Gov 2.0 efforts

Digital Government

Batman and Robin's new secret hideout: DARPA's labs

The boffins at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may be planning to study the science in the proposed new programs, but the wonks who devise acronyms -- we think it's a super-secret bureau nestled in the deep recesses of a secret agency -- must have worked overtime on the names.

Digital Government

Were alleged Russian spies undone by technology problems?

The alleged Russian spy ring that the FBI recently busted might still be operating covertly if they had had better tech support.

Digital Government

Twitter lands State Department staffers in spotlight

Two State Department employees' innocous tweets while on a visit to Syria raise eyebrows back in Foggy Bottom.

Digital Government

Buzz Factor

These were the most-read stories on FCW.com during the past two weeks.

People

Sexting case chills workplace privacy

The majority of our readers appear to agree with the Supreme Court that you can’t expect any messages you send on employer-issued equipment to be private.