TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
01/27/12 02:02 pm ET
The Associated Press reported this morning on a study to be released by The Constitution Project that concludes Americans should be concerned about the federal government's public-private partnership efforts to share information. Specifically, the AP states that the report raises concerns about "sensitive personal...>>
01/26/12 10:13 pm ET
Who knows what really happened to a railway in the Pacific Northwest last month? Nobody who's willing to say, apparently. Nextgov's reporting on a Transportation Security Administration memo that stated unequivocally hackers executed a "targeted attack" on a railroad and disrupted signals leaves a...>>
01/24/12 01:49 am ET
In a potential quandary for Congress, the Supreme Court ruled that government authorities must obtain a warrant before attaching GPS devices, like car-mounted electronics, to track suspects. But they didn't rule on tracing the location of mobile devices, like smartphones, that officers have never...>>
01/20/12 10:30 am ET
Visitors to the President's Challenge Physical Activity, Nutrition and Fitness Awards program website on Thursday were in for a surprise when instead of the fitness page they received the following message: Site Maintenance We're taking a little breather. Our site is down temporarily...>>
01/17/12 09:54 am ET
The federal government is restructuring cybersecurity leadership, as Congress prepares to debate legislation early this year that could increase the Homeland Security Department's cyber workload. On Friday, DHS officials announced John Streufert, a pioneer in threat-monitoring at the State Department, will be joining Homeland...>>
01/13/12 07:33 am ET
On Thursday, the Electronic Privacy Information Center sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting that the agency investigate Google's recent announcement to integrate its social network, Google+, into search results. The letter asserts a number of charges relating to competition and privacy....>>
01/11/12 08:50 pm ET
A variant of the notorious Zeus virus has been circulating the offices of government agencies through an email from hackers who are aping the sender address @US-CERT.GOV, the true U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team disclosed Wednesday evening. Researchers outside of US-CERT traced the malicious...>>
01/10/12 05:26 pm ET
Hackers posing as members of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team are emailing feds using the bogus sender address SOC@US-CERT.GOV, according to federal officials. The real U.S. CERT -- we think -- issued an alert saying that today it began receiving reports of a...>>
01/04/12 01:15 pm ET
The year 2011 proved to be a busy one on the cybersecurity front, with significant attention being paid to attacks, breaches and general security issues. Hackers' exploits this year were not necessarily new, but neither was the prioritization of the issue by policymakers, the...>>
12/29/11 12:14 am ET
These days, there is much chatter in the cybersecurity space about the need for robust "public-private partnerships." Just last month, the Department of Homeland Security in its Blueprint for a Secure Cyber Future, discussed the need for clarification in existing law to strengthen the...>>
