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
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.
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