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Philip Reitinger, who left the Homeland Security Department in the spring, has a new job: the first chief information security officer at Sony Corporation, Information Week reports.
The White House, Defense Department, NASA and federal procurement experts have formed a working group to tackle the problem of counterfeit goods in the government\'s supply chain. The Justice Department has convicted military suppliers of selling phony parts that were used in military equipment used in Fallujah, Iraq. The group will make recommendations to President Barack Obama by the end of the year.
Mark Forman, the first e-gov administrator at the Office of Management and Budget, is currently working on cloud- related programs at government Transaction Services, a firm he co-founded. He explains the extent of the \"IT cartel\" problem and how the cloud can help.
Cyberattacks against infrastructure in the United States pose a bigger threat than ever before, according to The National Security Preparedness Group.
Ed Meagher, a former Interior Department CIO and deputy CIO and Chief Technology Officer at VA, explains why he supports VisTA\'s move to open source.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee found agencies manually input data into grants, contracts and loan systems. The committee also said at least 10 agencies don\'t have good oversight of the data quality.
Activist hacker group Anonymous could be taking aim at U.S. infrastructure, according to a warning from the Homeland Security Department.
Securities fraudsters would rather steal an identity and take over a trading account than set up a fake new account, according to a study of suspicious activity reports by the Treasury Department\'s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN.
Karl Krumbholz, the face and force behind the General Services Administration\'s Networx telecommunications program, will leave government Jan. 1. He spent nearly 10 years at GSA and 26 years in the Navy.
A recently fired IT worker --David Palmer -- broke into the military contractor\'s computer system and wiped out payroll files while eating a burger at a sports bar.
Hacker group Anonymous stole and leaked 90,000 military email addresses and passwords from Booz Allen Hamilton in July, and they are not done.
The Army is planning a 2012 release for a major information technology contract. Request for proposals are set for the second quarter on the 10-year, $5 billion dollar IT Enterprise Solutions-3 Hardware contract.
DHS is advising cyber staffs in the public and private sectors to watch for attempts by the hacker group to recruit ideologically dissatisfied, sympathetic employees to its cause.
The Department of Veterans Affairs celebrated the opening of the online portal where development on its electronic health record system will proceed using an open source model. The effort could fundamentally change the way the government tackles large IT projects, VA\'s chief information officer said.
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