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Military Illegally Aided ICE in Money Laundering Case, Civil Rights Lawyer Says
Special Operations Command applied data mining technologies to social media.
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Obama on the Tonight Show: Diplomats ‘Don’t Get Enough Credit’
The president talks contracting, embassy security and infrastructure with Jay Leno.
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Analysis: How Twitter Is Revolutionizing Washington Relationships
The capital is connecting with the country -- and itself -- 140 characters at a time.
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Report: Joint U.S.-China Aviation Ventures Are More Prone to Cyber Intrusions than U.S. Firms
But other nation states and crime groups are the primary suspects, not the Chinese.
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Special Ops Mined Social Media for Data to Advance Mission
The command experimented with tools from a dozen companies.
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The U.S. Has a Huge Backlog of Untested DNA Evidence
And the Supreme Court might have made it worse.
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Hack Linked To Feds Probably Yielded a List of Tor Users
Developers of the identity-masking Web browser are weighing their options for response.
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Online tool calculates average earnings based on title, experience, location and more.
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The Chinese Army Is Trying to Hack a Missouri Water Plant
So what else is China infiltrating?
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How a Misplaced Reef on a Digital Chart Helped Destroy a Navy Minesweeper
Error by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency was compounded by the Navy’s reliance on GPS for navigation.
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New TV Show on Agencies Spotlights Information Technology
WJLA’s Sunday morning ‘Government Matters’ is aimed at feds, contractors.
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How Computer Clouds Could Help Cure Cancer
The National Cancer Institute is funding pilot computer clouds that will help researchers crack cancer’s genetic code.
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$116,000: What You Need to Pay for the Average Cyber Pro
Federal government described as a dream employer, second only to Google, in new survey.
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Why Wasn't the NSA Prepared?
Contingency planning is critical to covert operations, and the NSA's failure to anticipate or effectively mitigate its recent leak is inexcusable.
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Should Federal Employees Be Forced to Switch Health Plans?
Feds get dragged into debate over implementation of Obamacare.
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This Week in ThreatWatch
A compilation of noteworthy headlines from the weird and wily world of cyber assaults.
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DC's Political Paralysis 'Means More Casualties' for Untrained Soldiers
The best place to learn how Washington’s budget impasse is putting troops at risk is the Army’s National Training Center, which has cancelled rotations for the first time since 1981. By James Kitfield
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Worldwide Travel Alert Issued for Al Qaeda Threat
State Department issues advisories, plans to close embassies on Sunday in response to unspecified threat. By Sara Sorcher
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Study Shows Widening Gap in Supply, Demand of IT Grads
IT degrees are falling as job vacancies are rising.
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