Significa
Hindsight may be 20/20, but occasionally foresight is, too. This phenomenon applies to an event that will grab the attention of Washington-area IT professionals'and all people in the area'next spring: the return of the 17-year locusts. The noisy bugs, properly known as periodical cicadas, last appeared around the nation's capital in 1987.
Hackers prompt Kentucky shakeup
Kentucky officials have reassigned some network management duties after discovering a 'monstrous' systems intrusion in which hackers, apparently from France, used Transportation Cabinet computers to store large quantities of pirated movies, music, games and books.
Congress sitting on 2003 funds for U.S. Visit
Committees are deciding whether to release the bulk of the fiscal 2003 funds for the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology system.
GAO urges Census to use migrant advocates' data
Although the Census Bureau is modernizing its mapping systems and GIS data processing, GAO says the agency needs to do more to assure its gets an adequate count of migrant farm workers during the 2010 Census.
Auditors: BIA schools database full of errors
The General Accounting Office urged the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs to clean up its database system for American Indian schools. 'Data entries from one-third of 102 schools that entered data showed a 100 percent error rate,' GAO said. <br>
CCAT distributes $600,000 for homeland tech
The federally funded Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology in San Diego has issued 16 grants totaling about $600,000 for domestic defense technology projects, including several IT projects. <br>
Conferees must agree on DHS funding, IT demands
House and Senate conferees face the task of reconciling a $900 million difference between versions of the Homeland Security appropriations bill, including discrepancies for some of the department's IT projects.
TSA restricts database queries via screening system
Responding to objections to its plan for commercial database searches to identify air passengers who are terrorist suspects, the Transportation Security Administration today issued a regulation limiting its use of the data.<br>
HSD to develop information sharing procedures
The Homeland Security Department will develop procedures under which federal agencies will share homeland security information.<br>
Kentucky shakes up systems after large-scale hacking
Kentucky officials have reassigned some network management duties after discovering a 'monstrous' systems intrusion in which hackers used Transportation Cabinet computers to store large quantities of pirated movies, music, games and books.<br>
Significa
We are what we eat. But what exactly are we eating? The Agriculture Department has been tackling food chemistry research since 1892. It issues results partly through the Web site of the Nutrient Data Laboratory at <a href= "http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp">nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp</a>. The lab maintains the National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, now in Release 15, to store data on food composition. The latest addition to the system is a database of the flavonoid content of selected foods.
Judge orders Interior to shut off Internet connections
A federal judge has ordered the Interior department to sever its Internet connections after failing to correct security problems.
Interior awaits court ruling on Internet cutoff
Interior Department officials and attorneys for American Indian trust beneficiaries are waiting for a ruling this afternoon by a federal judge that could sever the department's Internet connections again.<br>
DHS seeking replacement for Callahan
The Homeland Security Department is advertising to fill Laura Callahan's position, but an agency spokeswoman said that Callahan has not been fired and remains on administrative leave.
Collins urges OPM to nix diploma mill degrees
Senator asks the Office of Personnel Management to 'close a legal loophole that enables federal employees to use federal funds to pay for coursework from diploma mills.'<br>
Experts disagree on how to shore up cybersecurity
Software vulnerabilities remain a major threat to cybersecurity, but experts last week suggested opposing approaches to closing the loopholes.
Lamberth finds EPA in contempt for e-document purge
A federal judge this week held the Environmental Protection Agency in contempt for destroying electronic documents in violation of a court order issued as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request.<br>
Significa
Ohio will not provide a searchable database of residents eligible for marriage to those with lonely hearts yearning for lifelong companions'at least not yet.
Geological survey tunes XML tags to keep data on key
The U.S. Geological Survey, nerve center of the National Biological Information Infrastructure, has installed tools for its collaborative storehouse of biological data to make sure agencies use the correct metadata tags on the content they provide.
Homeland mergers spawn RFP
The Homeland Security Department is working on a consolidated case management system that will serve 4,000 to 5,000 workers in the Customs and Border Protection Bureau, as well as users in other DHS agencies, said S.W. 'Woody' Hall, assistant commissioner for information and technology.
Do Not Sell My Personal Information
When you visit our website, we store cookies on your browser to collect information. The information collected might relate to you, your preferences or your device, and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to and to provide a more personalized web experience. However, you can choose not to allow certain types of cookies, which may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer. Click on the different category headings to find out more and change our default settings according to your preference. You cannot opt-out of our First Party Strictly Necessary Cookies as they are deployed in order to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting the cookie banner and remembering your settings, to log into your account, to redirect you when you log out, etc.). For more information about the First and Third Party Cookies used please follow this link.
Manage Consent Preferences
Strictly Necessary Cookies - Always Active
We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a “sale” of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.
Sale of Personal Data, Targeting & Social Media Cookies
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information to third parties. These cookies collect information for analytics and to personalize your experience with targeted ads. You may exercise your right to opt out of the sale of personal information by using this toggle switch. If you opt out we will not be able to offer you personalised ads and will not hand over your personal information to any third parties. Additionally, you may contact our legal department for further clarification about your rights as a California consumer by using this Exercise My Rights link
If you have enabled privacy controls on your browser (such as a plugin), we have to take that as a valid request to opt-out. Therefore we would not be able to track your activity through the web. This may affect our ability to personalize ads according to your preferences.
Targeting cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
Social media cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.
If you want to opt out of all of our lead reports and lists, please submit a privacy request at our Do Not Sell page.
Cookie List
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a “sale” of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.
Functional Cookies
We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a “sale” of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.
Performance Cookies
We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a “sale” of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.
Sale of Personal Data
We also use cookies to personalize your experience on our websites, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you, and to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our websites and your experience. You may opt out of our use of such cookies (and the associated “sale” of your Personal Information) by using this toggle switch. You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. Because we do not track you across different devices, browsers and GEMG properties, your selection will take effect only on this browser, this device and this website.
Social Media Cookies
We also use cookies to personalize your experience on our websites, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you, and to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our websites and your experience. You may opt out of our use of such cookies (and the associated “sale” of your Personal Information) by using this toggle switch. You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. Because we do not track you across different devices, browsers and GEMG properties, your selection will take effect only on this browser, this device and this website.
Targeting Cookies
We also use cookies to personalize your experience on our websites, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you, and to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our websites and your experience. You may opt out of our use of such cookies (and the associated “sale” of your Personal Information) by using this toggle switch. You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. Because we do not track you across different devices, browsers and GEMG properties, your selection will take effect only on this browser, this device and this website.
Help us tailor content specifically for you: