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Australia Ramps Up Digital Services With Own 18F-Inspired Office
The Digital Transformation Office is expected to function in the manner of a startup and launch coordinated, user-centered digital services for the entire government.
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Federal Employee Union Sues Over OPM Hack, Citing Financial and Emotional Distress
Agency Director Katherine Archuleta and CIO Donna Seymour are named in the class action lawsuit.
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Texas AG Thinks County Officials Can Avoid Issuing Marriage Licenses to Same-Sex Couples
Exercising religious freedom or discrimination?
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Why Open Data is the Future of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
“Don’t send a spy where you can send a schoolboy," says the intelligence official leading the agency's effort to work with unclassified data.
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DHS Group Wants Homeland Security to Share Database of Cyber Incidents with Private Sector
The effort builds on a 2015 White House executive order encouraging more cyberthreat information sharing between the public and private sectors.
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Should Local Governments Rush to Upgrade Point-of-Sale Terminals?
Microchipped credit and debit cards are finally taking off in the U.S., but Apple Pay and Google Wallet could undo them, according to one tech expert.
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Feds to Festival: Give Us Ice Cream and Air Conditioning
Burning Man organizers say Bureau of Land Management demands $1 million in amenities to oversee the event.
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After Hack, Officials Pull Plug on Pentagon and OPM Background Check Systems
A vulnerability in an OPM tool that links to the Pentagon system was discovered during a probe.
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Puerto Rico Is ‘Out of Options’ With $72 Billion Debt; Florida Health Info Hack
Also: NYC city worker EZ-Pass investigation and Montana’s outsourced autopsies.
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Hackers Expose Narcotics Dealers, Dump Canadian Officials’ Credentials and Sell Patient Records for $3
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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A Triumphant Victory, 11 Years After San Francisco City Hall’s ‘Winter of Love’
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom reflects on how the nation has “traveled full circle” since his defiant actions to sanction same-sex marriages as mayor in 2004.
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OPM Chief’s New Cyber Defense Operation Has Potential, Private Investigators Say
But GOP lawmakers have asked Obama to remove Archuleta.
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What Do US Intelligence Agencies and Netflix Have in Common? Both are Amazon Cloud Customers
It’s been almost a year since Amazon Web Services stood up a cloud computing infrastructure for the 17 agencies within the intelligence community.
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DHS Restructures CIO Office
The reorganization is to "consolidate all service delivery functions" and "implement a newly revised governance framework," among other goals.
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TSA Wants to Tweet with Travelers
The DHS agency is looking for sources for a social media management contract.
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Try GSA for Your Nuptial Needs
Agency will auction off items from an Alaska bridal shop that was a criminal front.
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Committee Grills DHS Official over EINSTEIN's Failure to Prevent OPM Attack
Representatives asked about EINSTEIN, an intrusion detection system, and why the hack occurred with this system in place.
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Pentagon Moves Ahead with Plan Allowing Personnel to Access Classified Info from Mobile Devices
The new mobile classified capability is one piece of the Pentagon’s Joint Information Environment plan.
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