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Federal Newscast

2015 OPM data breach claims checks still trickling in

Federal employees should look for a check in the mail if they were impacted by the OPM data breach.

Federal Newscast

Disabled Veterans set to receive boost in benefits

Cybersecurity

Data breach at your agency? Better report it and get it over with

Federal Newscast

Sam.gov problems not a cyber attack, GSA says

Workforce

Federal judge finalizes $63M settlement for OPM data breach victims

Agency Oversight

The government's people agency has a growing task list of its own

Federal Newscast

Federal lawsuit over 2015 OPM breach seems all but wrapped up

Drew Jaehnig, the chief of the Fourth Estate optimization program and chief of the defense enclave services, discusses the new RFI at AFCEA's TechNet event in Baltimore Maryland. (Photo courtesy Michael Carpenter/AFCEA SIGNAL)

Federal Newscast

Two large government conference organizers suffer data breach

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Veterans Affairs

VA data breach also hit 17,000 community care providers, senators say

Veterans Affairs

VA data breach exposes personal information for 46,000 veterans

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2020 file photo, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington. Esper said Tuesday he is looking to NATO allies for more help countering the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and in bolstering U.S. defense efforts in the Middle East more broadly. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Federal Newscast

Defense employee unions on Trump administration radar

Defense Information Systems Agency data breach

Defense News

DISA exposes personal data of 200,000 people

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013, file photo, hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. Hackers have gained access to OneLogin, an online password manager that offers a single sign-on to multiple websites and services. The breach raises questions about the security of other accounts kept with OneLogin. According to published reports, OneLogin informed customers that the breach included the ability to access encrypted data; passwords are typically stored that way. OneLogin didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Federal Drive

443 federal data breaches in 5 years, and not all by hackers

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Federal Tech Talk

Vendor risk management & federal IT

A chart of data breaches is shown on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 16, 2015, as witnesses testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform committee's hearing on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Federal Newscast

At least eight agencies are at risk for major data breach

FILE - In this March 29, 2019, file photo, vehicles line up to enter the U.S. from Mexico at a border crossing in El Paso, Texas. Customs and Border Protection said Monday, June 10, that photos of travelers and license plates collected at a single U.S. border point have been exposed in a malicious cyberattack in what a leading congressman called a "major privacy breach." (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Cybersecurity

Customs says hack exposed traveler, license plate images

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Federal Newscast

Plan to give civilian federal employees pay raise gets more Congressional support

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Cybersecurity

NASA suffers breach of employee data

Federal Newscast

IG: Still more OPM can do to improve cybersecurity standards

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Federal Drive

Mark Spitler: Verizon cybersecurity investigation finds trends, attack methods

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Women of Washington

Like people, regulation doesn't always fit inside a box

FILE - In Dec. 14, 2016 file photo, early morning traffic rolls down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the U.S. Capitol as daybreaks in Washington. The federal government swung to a surplus of $214.3 billion in April, 2018 primarily reflecting the revenue from that month’s annual tax filing deadline. The Treasury Department reports that last month’s surplus increased 17.4 percent from a year ago. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Congress

New bill would extend identity protection benefits for feds compromised in OPM breach

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Federal Insights

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