Federal Drive
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Ever since the first Microsoft Word macro attack, documents have been a source of malware delivery. Thirty years later it's still a problem. Word documents, PDFs, photographs, spreadsheets, they all remain potent delivery mechanisms for hackers.
August 10, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is strengthening its ability to investigate and remedy employment discrimination allegations filed against federal contractors.
August 10, 2023 -
There's cybersecurity, and then there's cyberwarfare. My next guest is both an academic and a practitioner of cyber wargames. He's here to update us on the types of exercises going on right now in federal agencies.
August 09, 2023 -
We just heard the macro view of how the immigration situation is cascading down to the Justice Department's immigration courts.
August 09, 2023 -
Immigration courts have become what my next guest calls the dumping ground for the nation's systemic immigration failures. And that's caused enormous backlogs on the immigration court dockets.
August 09, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast, five years since issuing the notice of proposed rulemaking, agencies can finally conduct 360 degree reviews with their contractors.
August 09, 2023 -
Buy-American and not-buy-from-China rules have raised concerns from contractors. Meanwhile the FTC proposes new rules on contractor mergers that look practically unworkable.
August 08, 2023 -
The Hubert H. Humphrey Federal Building, home to headquarters for the Health and Human Services Department, might also lament about being considered ugly. In fact, its become something of an internet thing, after a Washington newspaper called HHS the ugliest building in D.C.
August 08, 2023