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President Barack Obama said \"significant vulnerabilities\" exist and will continue to accelerate in government and private sector systems, unless changes are made.
June 08, 2015 -
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Hackers steal personally identifiable information for more than 100,000 taxpayers through the Internal Revenue Service\'s GetTranscript portal. Dean Silverman, former director of the Office of Compliance Analytics and senior adviser to the commissioner at the IRS, is now a senior adviser for Intuit. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose, the IRS can learn a few things from industry about its next steps to combat identity fraud.
June 08, 2015 -
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The Defense Authorization Act is the main piece of business for the Senate this week. The House will debate its version of the appropriations bill for defense spending. Those two bills have a big difference in their top-line numbers. David Hawkings, senior editor at Roll Call, writes the Hawkings Here blog. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose how much the Overseas Contingency Operation is at play.
June 08, 2015 -
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Half of the Defense Department\'s components are tracing the normal network activity of their personnel. The Pentagon is supposed to look at common user behavior to help it find cases where its employees might leak classified information. It\'s part of a series of executive orders from President Barack Obama that require agencies set up their own insider-threat programs. Joe Kirschbaum, director of defense capabilities and management issues at the Government Accountability Office, tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the Pentagon\'s progress on its insider threat program.
June 08, 2015 -
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The breach of the Office of Personnel Management\'s network focuses attention on hiring cyber professionals. A hand-picked group of agencies can soon take advantage of a short-term hiring authority to find new cybersecurity and digital services professionals. OPM says appointments must be for one of the Smarter IT Delivery Initiative programs. Jeff Neal, senior vice president at ICF International, is a former chief human capital officer at the Homeland Security Department. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose why agencies are force-fitting new jobs into a General Schedule system that is too old to handle a mobile talent pool of cyber professionals.
June 08, 2015 -
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Less than half of the paperwork the Small Business Administration finishes when an employee or contractor leaves the agency is complete and filled out correctly. SBA\'s inspector general said the agency isn\'t following its own separation procedures when an employee leaves. Seventy-three network accounts are still active for employees who are already gone. SBA is supposed to deactivate those accounts within 24 hours after an employee leaves. Troy Meyer, assistant inspector general for audit at the Small Business Administration\'s Office of Inspector General, tells In Depth with Francis Rose where his office started with this report.
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The cyber attack against the Office of Personnel Management turns out to be part of a year-long coordinated effort to steal federal employee and contractors\' personal data in bulk. The Homeland Security Department issued an alert in May detailing a series of attacks against government and industry. Federal News Radio\'s executive editor Jason Miller joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain why federal employees need to be especially aware of targeted spear phishing attacks.
June 08, 2015 -
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The Office of Personnel Management starts notifying employees today that their personal information may have been compromised. As many as 4 million current and former federal employees may be affected. Now the question is, has the government learned anything from this incident, or is it lurching from crisis to crisis? SANS Institute\'s Director of Research Alan Paller joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive for a look ahead.
June 08, 2015 -
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The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center has suspended operation of its Pharmaceutical Development Section in Bethesda. The move follows an inspection by the Food and Drug Administration that was prompted by a whistleblower. Inspectors found a series of operating and handling deficiencies, including experimental drugs contaminated with fungus. Dr. Lawrence Tabak joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on what NIH found and what it\'s doing to fix the problem.
June 08, 2015 -
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The Presidential Rank Awards returned this year after a one year hiatus. The awards honor the top 1 percent of senior federal career leaders and the important work federal employees do every day. Among this year\'s winners was Dr. Richard Linderman. He is the Chief Scientist of the Information Directorate in the Air Force\'s Rome Research Laboratory. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to discuss his achievement.
June 08, 2015 -
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The Federal Headlines is a daily compilation of the stories you hear discussed on Federal News Radio each day. It is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com readers more information about the stories heard on the radio. In today\'s news, if you do nothing else today, change your user names and passwords for whatever you do online, the White House orders D-H-S to speed up installation of new cyber-intrusion software in the wake of the massive OPM breach and a watchdog finds the Social Security Administration overpaid nearly half of people receiving disability benefits over the last decade.
June 08, 2015 Jill Gonzalez of CardHub.com discusses the best methods to convert currency when traveling abroad.
June 07, 2015-
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Jill Gonzalez of CardHub.com discusses the best methods to convert currency when traveling abroad, the type of credit and debit cards that have the best rates when used abroad, and other travel tips.
June 06, 2015 -
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National Academy of Public Administration President and CEO Dan Blair, NAPA Director of Project Development Joe Mitchell, and NAPA Fellow David Chu will discuss academy\'s current projects and initiatives. June 5, 2015
June 05, 2015
