Plan for dealing with insider threats getting close
The FBI and ODNI are leading the initiative to put together the pieces of a coherent national policy on insider threats. “No agency is starting from scratch.”
Secrets of an IT consolidator
Getting the most out of consolidating a distributed, siloed IT environment requires management, fair deals and not being a bully.
How Michigan's consolidation plan kept wolverines from the door
Over the past decade, Michigan's Department of Information Technology has cut costs by consolidating resources and standardizing its approach to better meet the needs of the state's agencies.
White House: Put teeth into online privacy Bill of Rights
An administration official says that legislation is essential to effective protections in the proposed Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.
Anonymous' 'Global Blackout': The odds against an Internet shutdown
The chances of Anonymous or anyone else shutting down the Internet are pretty slim, but even skeptical experts say damage can be done.
DHS getting a bad rap on cybersecurity?
Sen. John McCain's recent rant about DHS could make even an airline passenger feel sorry for the department.
'No one would tolerate' Internet crime rates in physical world, FCC official says
Officials stop short of calling for regulation of industry cybersecurity but tell a House panel that current efforts are "not working."
McCain slams DHS, wants DOD to defend cyberspace
A Senate budget hearing on the Defense Department's Strategic and Cyber Commands became a duel over how the nation's cyber defense should be structured.
FTC recommends Do Not Track be voluntary -- or else
The commission calls for greater regulation of data brokers and a Do-Not-Track option that could be made law if not adopted voluntarily.
Napolitano: Cyber threat 'right in front of us'
Cybersecurity would get a 74 percent boost under DHS' 2013 budget request, but some senators question if the department should be securing critical infrastructure.
Poor follow-up left public vulnerable after FBI's DNSChanger bust
The take-down of an Internet fraud ring went down as planned, but inadequate public outreach left millions of computers at risk.
Hacktivists dominate 2011 data thefts, report says
Verizon's annual report says that most of last year's incidents were unsophisticated attacks -- and 97 percent of them could have been easily avoided.
DOD's 3 challenges in protecting cyber infrastructure
House and Senate budget hearings focused on defining DOD's role in defending a largely civilian cyberspace, and on the challenge of recruiting and retaining the workforce it needs.
Hacker teams throw down in international CyberLympics
Seven teams from around the world go head to head this week in Virginia in the first Olympic-style hacker games -- but don't expect to see the winners on a Wheaties box.
IRS systems leave taxpayer data at risk, audit finds
The agency has developed security policies, but incomplete implementation results in weak access controls that expose sensitive data to internal threats, GAO says.
Ceding data ownership for 'any-device' access is a risky trade
When we give up ownership of information and resources in favor of anywhere, any-device access, we risk trading down on security in the process.
Agencies way behind in using DNSSEC to secure .gov domains
More than two years after the deadline for deploying DNS Security Extensions in .gov domains, fewer than 60 percent of agencies have digitally signed DNS records to enable the security tool.
Want to be a cyber pro? DOD might have a scholarship for you.
The Information Assurance Scholarship Program provides full rides for graduate and undergraduate students, and military and civilian DOD employees, in exchange for commitments to stay with DOD.
Nervous when out of cell range? You may have nomophobia.
As if we didn't have enough to be afraid of, now there's nomophobia – the fear of being out of cell phone contact.
Pi Day: How the 'irrational' number pushed the limits of computing
The never-ending number has led to ingenious algorithms used to calculate it with precision, in the process expanding the boundaries of what computers can do.
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