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Cyber security advocates are frustrated that new legislation is caught between a rock and a hard place. It's stuck in contentious debates over government surveillance and the government shutdown. NSA's highly skilled cyber workers have been told to stay home, weakening the nation's ability to protect critical cyber infrastructure. Thousands of people with PHDs and math whizzes and thousands of computer scientists have been sitting idly at home.
October 15, 2013 -
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Brazil is moving forward with the creation of a secure email platform after revelations of cyber surveillance techniques used by other governments. BBC reports the country's Federal Data Processing Service will develop the system to interact with encrypted services in attempt to "prevent possible espionage."
October 14, 2013 -
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Former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden speaks to America in videos posted to the Wikileaks web site. The videos are the first to show Snowden talking since he fled the country for Russia in July. Snowden says says National Security Agency surveillance programs make people less safe, put them in conflict with the government, and hurt the economy. The clips show Snowden in an ornate room just after receiving an award in Moscow from the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence.
October 14, 2013 -
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The Army Computer Crime Investigation Unit is warning people about mobile apps that let users access the myPay system. MyPay is operated by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service. Third party mobile apps aren't sponsored by the Defense Department. The Army says the apps leave users vulnerable to identity theft and loss of their money. It cites an app called MyPal DFAS LES. Free on the Google Play app store, the application has been downloaded 15 thousand times. The app lets user change passwords, update security questions and review payroll information.
October 14, 2013 -
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Recent revelations about online National Security Agency surveillance have sparked an uptick, in use of anonymous web browsing services. Computerworld reports, companies offering that service are seeing a spike in usage. A startup called Disconnect Search launched Monday, and by yesterday morning had more than 400 thousand searches. Duck-Duck-Go had 54 million searches in May, before Snowden went public. Last month, it had 116 million. Because the company doesn't collect user information, it can't say how many individuals have used the service. Anonymous search companies let visitors use their usual search engines, but the queries are routed through the companies' servers, removing an identification of the searcher.
October 11, 2013 -
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Facebook is getting rid of a privacy feature that let users limit who can find them. No longer will you be able to restrict who can see your timeline in the social network. Facebook says it is an old search setting that a small percentage of its nearly 1.2 billion users still rely on. It says there are other ways to control what people can find out about you.
October 11, 2013 -
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Lt Gen Peterson is a member of the URS Systems Engineering and Information Solutions team, focused on delivering information technology and electromagnetic services to the federal government. Earlier, he served as Chief of Warfighting Integration…
October 10, 2013 -
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This week’s Federal Marketing Insight is meant for marketing teams within health organizations that are prepping for this year's Open Season.
October 10, 2013 -
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The head of the National Security Agency is appealing to the cybersecurity industry to defend his agency's surveillance programs. Speaking at a Maryland conference, Army General Keith Alexander says media reports have focused on what the NSA could be doing with the data it gathers, rather than what it actually is doing. He calls the reporting "sensationalized" and says it could impact cyber legislation in Congress. Meanwhile, the open-records website Muck Rock says the NSA has seen a one-thousand percent rise in Freedom of Information Act requests since Edward Snowden began leaking information.
October 10, 2013 -
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Federal computers stand in danger of being left vulnerable to the latest cybersecurity threats. That goes for both servers and desktop PCs. Microsoft this week issued 26 security patches for a variety of operating systems. But only skeleton IT staffs are on duty at many agencies. John Pescatore is director of emerging technologies at the SANS Institute. He tells Computerworld, if furloughed workers' machines are turned off, they are difficult to patch. Those machines would be open to attack when employees return and flip them back on. But Pescatore says most of the government's security staff was considered essential and remains on the job.
October 10, 2013 -
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Cybersecurity related web pages the National Institute of Standards and Technology hosts are mostly unavailable because of the shutdown. The message on NIST's homepage says the National Vulnerability Database and the NIST Internet Time Service web sites are still available.
October 10, 2013 -
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What two dimensions are necessary for effective collaboration? How can agency leaders and OMB foster cross-agency collaboration as a way of doing business? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Dr. Jane Fountain author of the IBM Center report, Implementing Cross-Agency Collaboration: A Guide for Federal Managers. Jane Fountain Professor of Political Science and Public Policy University of Massachusetts Amherst Director, National Center for Digital Government Gordon Hall
October 10, 2013 -
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The Navy says a three-star admiral was notified Wednesday that he has been relieved of duty as second-in-command at the military organization that oversees all U.S. nuclear forces. He is under investigation in a gambling matter. The Navy's top spokesman, Rear Adm. John Kirby, said that Vice Adm. Tim Giardina will drop in rank to two-star admiral as a consequence of being removed from his position at U.S. Strategic Command.
October 10, 2013 -
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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class James Reyher, 28, of Caldwell, Ohio, and Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Harris, 23, of Gladstone, Missouri, died on Feb. 26, when they ran out of air while trying to locate a sunken helicopter in 150 feet (46 meters) of water at the Super Pond training site at Aberdeen Proving Grounds near Baltimore. As a result four sailors have been charged with dereliction of duty resulting in the deaths of Reyher and Harris during a training exercise. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jason Bennett, the command diving officer for a salvage and diving unit, was charged with failing to ensure that safety procedures were followed and with failing to tell the commanding officer of a request to deviate from the training scenario. Senior Chief Navy Diver David Jones, Senior Chief Navy Diver James Burger and Chief Navy Diver Gary Ladd Jr also were accused of failure to follow safety procedures.
October 10, 2013
