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Should the Secret Service Hand Over Its Cybersecurity Responsibilities?
It might be time for the Secret Service to transition its focus away from cybercrime, according to a recent House Oversight and Government Reform report.
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The White House is Prepping for the Most Violent Space Weather Imaginable
Here’s the plan for responding to a destructive solar storm.
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Why the U.S. Postal Service Has the Best Customer Service in Government
The agency's "customer-obsessed" approach ranks highest in the federal government alongside the National Park Service.
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Treasury’s USASpending.gov Revamp Might Be Bumpy, Official Says
Treasury's online federal spending tracker might still have some kinks by May 2017.
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DHS to Meet with Tech Companies in Silicon Valley Next Week
Applying for DHS funding and securing the Internet of Things are on the agenda.
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Commerce Data Chief: Tech Can Make the Patent Process 'A Hell of a Lot Easier'
Patent applications could be processed faster if patents were machine readable.
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NASA Astronauts Testify Before House Space Committee
NASA’s Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren testified at a House hearing on Wednesday about their lives aboard the International Space Station.
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State Department on the Hunt for Electronic System to Manage Emails
Under a presidential mandate, agencies must manage all email records in an electronic format by the end of 2016.
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Most House Members Want to End Email Spying. Why Hasn’t Their Bill Moved?
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte is wary of hamstringing government investigations.
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Lawmakers Want National Security Damage Assessment on OPM Hack
The House version of the 2016 Intelligence Authorization Act mandates a report on whether the hack disrupted overseas operations.
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OPM Announces Official Launch of Self-Check Site for Hack Victims
Visitors can use the Pentagon-hosted website to check if their personal data was stolen in a massive breach of sensitive background investigation files.
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How Valuable is Federal Research? It Depends How You Count
It's difficult to pin down the total economic impact of federal R&D.
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Pentagon Watchdog: Show Us the Cost Benefit Analysis of Cloud
A forthcoming DOD IG audit may soon shed light on the extent the Pentagon and its components perform cost benefit analysis before acquiring cloud services.
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Are These Collaboration Platforms Key to Improving Federal IT?
Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott announced the winning teams of the first-ever CIO Council IT Solutions Challenge.
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Senator Labels OPM Breach a ‘Federal Fumble’ of 2015
“The federal government still does not know -- and may not know for years to come -- the extent of the damage done by the massive OPM breach,” the report stated.
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Revamping IRS Electronic Fraud Detection Could Waste $18 Million a Year
A new Treasury audit found the IRS planned to run the new and old systems simultaneously.
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OPM Is Just Now Figuring Out How Much Data It Owns
Months after it announced it was hacked, the agency has finally put together an inventory of its own servers.
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Leaked Pentagon Bomber Data, Scoop Up Toy Company Details on Kids, and Pinch Credit Cards from Wisconsin Resort
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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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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