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Secret DHS Audit Could Prove Governmentwide Hacker Surveillance Isn’t Really Governmentwide
The intrusion-prevention system, named EINSTEIN 3 Accelerated, garnered both ridicule and praise following the OPM hack.
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Emma, USCIS' New Virtual Assistant, Can Soon Answer Your Visa Questions
A rudimentary, text-based version of more advanced virtual assistants such as Apple's Siri, Emma interprets typed questions and direct users to relevant parts of the USCIS website.
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Watchdog: Too Many DARPA Projects Enter 'Valley of Death,' Don't Progress
DARPA's method of tracking "technology transition" is unreliable.
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FDA Crowdsourcing its Way to Precision Medicine. But What About Security?
A team at FDA is in the midst of launching PrecisionFDA, a cloud-based platform so researchers can work together.
Tech
How a Digital Swat Team Drove Home Obama’s College Scorecard
The administration brought in techies after three years of controversy.
Management
Why Poor FITARA Grades Are a Good Start
The first round of ratings provides critical benchmarks.
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Chinese, Others Hack Interior Data 19 Times
The incidents are unrelated to a previously disclosed assault on Interior networks connected to Office of Personnel Management systems, the agency says.
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Energy Invests $125 million in Green Tech Projects
Days before COP21 in Paris, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is emphasizing the department's commitment to "innovation."
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Can the U.S. Military Construct a Disaster-Resilient City?
Cities are incredibly complex, and break in complicated ways. Understanding that complexity will be key to mitigating tomorrow’s disasters.
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Next Step in DOD-VA Health Records Sharing: Doctors’ Scribbles and Other ‘Unstructured’ Data
One of the most important aspects of DOD’s future electronic health records system is its ability to pull in and display unstructured data in raw text from electronic health records.
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State Department Tech Chief Not Plugged Into Cybersecurity at Bureaus
System operators can plug in rogue devices to the department's network without the chief information officer's knowledge, a watchdog report found.
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National Science Foundation, Agriculture Release CIO-Boosting FITARA Plans
All agencies must publicly post their plans by Dec. 31.
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VA Rolls Out 'Innovators Networks' at 8 Sites
The new program aims to get employees to test out new ideas.
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Hackers Stay 8 Months at Starwood Hotels, Spy on Kentucky Hospital; IT Worker Accidentally Doxxes 6M Georgia Residents
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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NASA has Given SpaceX the Order to Transport Astronauts in 2017
A lot depends on Congressional funding.
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IG Report: OPM Still Struggles with IT Security
The IG report identified persistent security weaknesses.
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The Crisis in Federal IT That’s Scarier Than Y2K Ever Was
Fossils in federal IT are a potentially multibillion disaster years in the making.
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Pentagon Ready to Certify Health Records Interoperability with VA
DOD says it has surpassed congressional requirements for sharing data with VA.
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