Oversight
Clinton to Trump: Delete Your Account
What a Twitter fight between Clinton and Trump says about politics and politicking on the internet.
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Carter Proposes Letting Campus Recruiters Hire Cyber Students on the Spot
Today, recruiters must first send their preferred candidates through the red tape that is USAJobs.gov to, among other things, fill out a resume, upload documents, respond to questions and wait for application processing.
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Scientists Build Public, Searchable Database for Cancer Data
The project supports the Cancer Moonshot initiative.
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Report: Digital Service Teams Sidestep CIOs, Lack Clear Performance Metrics
A GAO report tells OMB to guide digital services teams on working with agency leadership.
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GAO: 18F Needs Better Plan to Recover Costs, Track Performance
Agencies that have hired 18F to provide products and services are generally satisfied with the team’s work, according to a new audit.
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Spy Agency Wants Tech That Shows How Well Its PR Team Is Doing
The NGA wants Sentiment Analysis tech to gauge its external communications efforts.
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House Committee Votes to Create New Cybersecurity Division within DHS
The new entity would be called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency.
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IRS Turns Hacked Application Back On -- This Time with Added Security Features
The announcement came just a day before the release of a new report that revealed the IRS did not identify all taxpayers whose sensitive tax information may have been improperly accessed by cybercriminals.
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3 Ways to Close the Social Engineering Security Gap
Despite the fact that phishing attacks are a well-known threat, they continue to be successful.
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House Passes Bill Mandating Agency Software-Savings Plans
The MEGABYTE Act requires federal agencies to maintain comprehensive software license inventories.
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How These Two Security Companies Aim to Fight the Car-Hacking Threat
“A huge problem with vehicle security is that once a threat gets into one system, it’s very easy to move horizontally to all the others,” said Ami Dotan, CEO of Karamba Security.
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White House Adviser: AI Could Make Criminal Justice System Fairer
But first, we need better data.
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TSA Curb-to-Gate Security Monitoring Is Coming, Agency Administrator Says
One proposal: RFID-tagged bins for carry-on luggage that roll down automatic conveyor belts for X-ray inspection.
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Nextgov Ebook: Federal Agencies Adapt to the Internet of Things
The challenges are innumerable, including protecting the data the internet of things collects and thwarting cyberattacks on that ecosystem.
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Census Names New Top Tech Official as Agency Prepares for 2020 Count
The hires comes less than a month after lawmakers pressed the agency to appoint a permanent CIO, following a nearly yearlong vacancy.
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Why Didn't E-Gov Live Up to Its Promise?
Technology was supposed to transform government 15 years ago; an “era of electronic government” was poised to make government faster, smaller, digitized and increasingly transparent.
Defense
Drone-Helicopter Teams Performing ‘Very Well’ Against ISIS
Future unmanned-human teaming looks a lot like the Predator’s little cousin.
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Survey: More People Want to Access Government Services on Their Smartphones
A new survey finds the majority of millennials want to access government services on their phones.
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Agency CIOs Undercount ‘High-Risk’ IT Projects, GAO Says
CIOs are not adequately assessing risk of major projects, according to the Government Accountability Office.
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