Interior Department

Interior gets a failing password grade

It’s 2023, and at least the Interior Department, thousands of employees use floppy-disk era passwords.

Tom Temin Commentary

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)

Interior Department focusing on future of work, employee engagement, hiring

Workforce

Andrew Weston touches the gravestone of his uncle, U.S. Army Vietnam war veteran Thomas Shaun Monahan, at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, 2021 in Elwood, Ill. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar)

Senators move to ban sex offenders from future National Veterans Cemeteries

Federal Newscast

FILE - Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, left, speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, May 16, 2022. A pair of dams on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota will get safety repairs with part of $29 million in funding from the federal infrastructure deal, the Department of the Interior announced Wednesday, May 18.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Interior Department removes ethnic slur from valleys, streams and rivers

Federal Newscast

Exclusive

Darren Ash to join Interior as its new CIO

CIO News

Fix the people doing the hiring, not the process

Federal Report

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2018 file photo, then-Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke speaks at EPA headquarters in Washington. Government investigators say Zinke misused his position to advance a development project in his Montana hometown and lied to an agency ethics official about his involvement. The Interior Department's inspector general said in a report made public Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, that Zinke continued working with a foundation on the commercial project in the community of Whitefish, Montana even after he committed upon taking office to breaking ties with the foundation. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Watchdog: Ex-Interior head Zinke lied during casino probe

Agency Oversight

Cyber security IT engineer working on protecting network against cyberattack from hackers on internet. Secure access for online privacy and personal data protection. Hands typing on keyboard and PCB

Veterans Affairs begins new focus on network cyber controls

Federal Newscast

Space Force controls all military satellites

The Defense Department was not the only agency shifting control of its satellites this month.

Space Operations

Under infrastructure law, federal firefighters to see increase in pay

Agencies hope to resolve growing recruitment and retention challenges for federal firefighters with a pay raise and new guidance for career paths.

Pay

FILE - People attend Juneteenth celebrations in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, on June 19, 2021. Recognition of Juneteenth, the effective end of slavery in the U.S., gained traction after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. But after an initial burst of action, the movement to have it recognized as an official holiday in the states has largely stalled. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Federal agencies commemorate Juneteenth holiday

Workforce

Today marked the second time the United States took a federal holiday to commemorate Juneteenth. Federal agencies commemorated the day on social media.

Interior Department

Interior gets a failing password grade

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

It’s not just low pay causing retention issues for federal firefighters

Reinventing the federal employee experience

Interior Department focusing on future of work, employee engagement, hiring

Senators move to ban sex offenders from future National Veterans Cemeteries

Interior Department removes ethnic slur from valleys, streams and rivers

Darren Ash to join Interior as its new CIO

Fix the people doing the hiring, not the process

Watchdog: Ex-Interior head Zinke lied during casino probe

Veterans Affairs begins new focus on network cyber controls

Space Force controls all military satellites

Under infrastructure law, federal firefighters to see increase in pay

Federal agencies commemorate Juneteenth holiday