Technology

  • Hackers that attacked the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Department have pleaded guilty to those attacks in a court in London, SC Magazine reported.

    June 27, 2012
  • While government IT resources are shrinking, a dire need for improvements with customer interaction will be key to agencies survival.

    June 27, 2012
  • Federal officials have arrested two dozen hackers in a cyber-crime ring that stretches from Japan to middle America.

    June 27, 2012
  • Homeland Security is getting serious about making sure all federal agencies get on board with continuous network monitoring. Keeping a vigilant eye out is the best way to fend off cyber attacks, DHS officials say.

    June 27, 2012
  • Lawmakers have about 23 real work days left before the end of the fiscal year to pass USPS reform, comprehensive cyber, DoD authorization and all the 2013 spending bills. Experts hold out little hope even after the passage of the FDA bill and the expected approval of the highway legislation.

    June 27, 2012
  • T.K. Keaninni, chief technology officer for nCircle joins host John Gilroy to talk about how his company can help your agency with its network security issues. June 26, 2012

    June 26, 2012
  • The IT Alliance has called for an international call for cooperation between your agency and the private sector. The organization of IT security groups from the U.S., Europe and Japan. The statement, called "Recommended Government Approaches to Cybersecurity," includes 12 points, including transparency and the need to to adapt to market changes.

    June 26, 2012
  • The General Services Administration is months away from releasing details of its newest contract vehicle that will allow agencies to find professional services solutions across disciplines. OASIS program manager Jim Ghiloni gave a status update on the contract. June 26, 2012(Encore presentation July 10, 2012)

    June 26, 2012
  • MI-5 chief Jonathan Evans said government secrets, infrastructure and intellectual property are at stake. He described the scale of the threats as "astonishing" in his first public speech in two years, just ahead of the London Olympics.

    June 26, 2012
  • A data breach at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in May did not compromise any trading or market data, the agency's chief information officer John Water said. CFTC said it will implement additional security controls and increase training for employees. The agency will also provide identity protection for employees through a credit monitoring company.

    June 25, 2012
  • The Department of Homeland Security says it now has 12 separate cloud services available for use in federal agencies, and all but one of them have received full federal security certification. Examples include DHS's Sharepoint-as-a-service offering, which already supports about 30,000 users in a public cloud setting. And more than 11,000 people are using the department's email-as-a-service in the DHS private cloud. 70 percent of the department's websites have moved to the DHS public cloud, and 100 applications are using a shared, cloud based identity management system.

    June 25, 2012
  • The Office of Special Counsel is reminding agencies not to target email monitoring of employees that could have a chilling effect on whistleblowers who report waste, fraud and abuse.

    June 25, 2012
  • Five Republican senators have introduced a bill that would require companies that store your personal information to report any security breaches to you as quickly as possible.

    June 25, 2012
  • Al Fox, federal division head of Outsystems, spoke with In Depth with Francis Rose on Industry Chatter .

    June 22, 2012

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