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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

In today’s Federal Newscast: Bad computer password practices could lead to phishing attacks at the Interior Department. 2022 Unclassified Defense Department…

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

Exclusive

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

Stratford University's Tech Talk

Exclusive

Securing your Facebook account – April 13, 2019

Stratford University's Tech Talk

From left, John Gilligan, Sean Kelley, Matthew Masterson and Chris Wlaschin

How secure is the election process?

CyberChat

Critical cybersecurity rules every federal employee should know, follow

Commentary

Chinese economic theft

CyberChat

House subcommittee continues to chip away at DISA

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

Defense

FILE - In this June 15, 2017, file photo, a customer inserts a credit card to buy gas in Haverhill, Mass. It’s always good to pay off your credit card debt, but now may be a better time than ever to do so. Americans’ debt levels have been creeping back up recently and interest rates are expected to rise soon. That’s a combination that could put consumers in a bind if they’re carrying a balance on their cards. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Hackers steal hundreds of government credit card numbers

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Defense Department says malicious hackers managed to steal the credit card numbers of several hundred people who’d been…

Federal Newscast

Jared Serbu: DoD anti-hacker program uncovers 3,000 bugs

Federal Drive

The Defense Department’s vulnerability disclosure policy lets anyone in the world report security holes they find in the DoD system without fear of prosecution.