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The Federal Marketing Insight is a weekly feature highlighting a topical federal marketing subject. It's meant to be an insightful and a quick read.
October 03, 2013 -
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Steven VanRoekel fears hackers will prey on government websites "skeleton crews" are covering because of the shutdown. Van Roekel tells the Wall Street Journal he could call employees back if an attack happened during the shutdown. But VanRoekel calls that delayed response scenario "worrisome".
October 03, 2013 -
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The FBI has arrested an alleged hacker and online purveyor of illicit goods. Ross Ulbricht was the owner and operator of Silk Road, an underground website officials say generated nearly 1 point 2 billion in sales. Computerworld reports, law enforcement also seized 26 thousand Bitcoins. Ulbricht was arrested in San Francisco and was to be arraigned yesterday. His site was taken down last month. It listed 13 thousand controlled substances. Plus a trove of hacker tools including key loggers, banking Trojans, and remote access tools. Silk Road also connected gun and ammunition buyers and sellers. It offered fake passports and Social Security cards.
October 03, 2013 -
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Top intelligence officials say the National Security Agency has tried to track Americans' cell-phone locations. It was part of a two-year pilot to test the technology. NSA chief General Keith Alexander says the agency did not actually track Americans' movements. He spoke before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The panel is considering legislation to restrict the surveillance programs. Alexander denied reports that the NSA dug into American's social media networks. And he says the agency has discliplined all but one of the dozen employees who have used the agency's technology for unauthorized purposes...including spying on their girlfriends.
October 03, 2013 -
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"The Hunt for Red October", "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger." Part of the genius of bestselling novelist Tom Clancy His intense attention to technical detail and accuracy earned him great respect inside the intelligence community and the military communities --especially when it came to submarines. He passed away at the age of 66 in a hospital near his Calvert County, Maryland home.
October 03, 2013 -
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Even though government agencies are in shutdown mode, contractors are still moving ahead in making business decisions. Small businesses are likely to hurt more from the shutdown due to smaller cash reserves and slimmer margins.
October 03, 2013 -
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This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" National President J. David Cox Sr. addresses the government shutdown and its impact on employees and public services. AFGE SSA Local 836 EVP Matt Perlinger discusses the importance of engaging younger union members and Professor Jeffrey Hilgert talks about his book, "Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work."
October 02, 2013 -
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Due to many factors, including security and budget, many of the latest and greatest web and mobile technologies won’t work in some federal agencies.
October 02, 2013 -
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So many federal IT employees are on furlough, those left on duty will have a job on their hands when it comes to cybersecurity. ComputerWorld reports, several agencies have issued contingency plans for keeping their systems operating. Most will be in maintenance mode, with a special eye on cyber. VA will furlough 40 percent of its eight thousand IT workers. Others, like the Federal Trade Commission, will have in place only a skeletal staff of six people. Housing and Urban Development will have 13 on the job. The Social Security Administration is leaving 10 percent of its three thousand IT staff in place.
October 02, 2013 -
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Computer network security issues at Guantanamo Bay won't stop proceedings against suspects in the September 11th terror attacks. A military judge has decided to let pretrial hearings continue while the Pentagon works on the cybersecurity issues. Security fears had prompted defense attorneys to stop using government email and servers for confidential legal work. They said some data disappeared. Emails mistakenly went to the prosecutors...and their private legal research was subject to monitoring. The Pentagon has agreed to address the complaints.
October 02, 2013 -
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All military personnel will continue on normal duty status but about half of the Defense Department's 800,000 civilian employees will be placed on unpaid leave. All military activity not critical to national security will be stopped during the shutdown, according to Pentagon officials. They also say military personnel, who are paid twice a month, would get their Oct. 1 paychecks but might see their Oct. 15 paychecks delayed if no funding deal is set by Oct. 7. Also, most Department of Veterans Affairs services will continue, including the operation of VA hospitals.
October 02, 2013 -
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Jim Williams, vice president at DAON, and Conor White, the president of the DAO division, X-Products, will discuss the changing world of identity management in the federal workspace. October 1, 2013
October 02, 2013 -
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What is Treasury's management and performance agenda? What is Treasury doing consolidate it office space and right-size its operational footprint? How is Treasury working to transform the way it does business? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and so much more with Nani Coloretti, Assistant Secretary of The Treasury for Management. Nani Coloretti Assistant Secretary of The Treasury for Management Department of the Treasury
October 01, 2013 -
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The government of Turkey says it might still reconsider its decision to co-produce a long-range air and missile defense system with a Chinese firm currently under U.S. sanctions, but officials said they are not obligated to adhere to the U.S. blacklist. Turkey, a member of the NATO alliance, announced recently it had chosen the FD-2000 missile defense system from China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp over rival systems from Russian, U.S. and European firms.
October 01, 2013
