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Ransomware attackers steal personal info of over 600K Medicare beneficiaries

In today’s Federal Newscast: Ransomware attackers steal the personal information of more than 600,000 Medicare beneficiaries. The Defense Department now…

Federal Newscast

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IARPA opens research into ‘cognitive vulnerabilities’ of cyber hackers

Inside the IC

A man visits a hacker community website at a house in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. Indonesian authorities have found no evidence that the country's main intelligence service's computers were compromised, after a U.S.-based private cybersecurity company alerted them of a suspected breach of its internal networks by a Chinese hacking group, an official said. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Bad computer-password practices could lead to a phishing-attack crisis

Federal Newscast

FILE - This Oct. 14, 2015, file photo shows the Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md. On Tuesday, April 17, 2018, U.S. health officials proposed steps to improve the government’s system for overseeing medical devices, which has been subject to years of criticism for failing to catch problems with risky implants and medical instruments. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Medical devices are the soft cybersecurity underbelly for health care providers

Cybersecurity

How agencies can benefit from good hackers

Federal Insights

NIST

How SolarWinds could’ve been prevented

Cybersecurity

School’s back in session… for hackers, too

Of Consuming Interest

Federal IT pros optimistic about security, but insider threats remain a challenge

Commentary

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Protecting the U.S. from hackers – June 22, 2019

Stratford University's Tech Talk

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Securing your Facebook account – April 13, 2019

Stratford University's Tech Talk

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How secure is the election process?

CyberChat

Critical cybersecurity rules every federal employee should know, follow

Amanda Sparks, a writer and researcher, offers six tips to keep federal employees and their data safe from cyber attacks.

Commentary

Chinese economic theft

On this episode of CyberChat, host Sean Kelley, former EPA CISO, discusses the Chinese military’s for-profit ventures with Joshua Philipp, an investigative…

CyberChat

House subcommittee continues to chip away at DISA

Defense

A House panel suggested moving DoD network defense responsibilities away from DISA and over to a “one-stop-shop” for all things cyber.