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Hackers Rig College Football, Prank Bryan Adams, Target Nvidia and Breach Bus System
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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The Man from Google Who Came to Fix Federal IT Still Doesn’t Have His Own Website
Nearly six months after the launch of the U.S. Digital Service, the agency still has no discernible Web presence.
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How Reverse-Engineering the Brain Could Help Machines Learn
The research arm of the intelligence community wants “human-like proficiency” in processing tasks like one-shot learning, unsupervised clustering and scene parsing
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GSA Wants to Make It Easier for Agencies to Buy Agile
The plan is to come up with a new contracting vehicle that will eventually allow agencies to purchase software and services from agile-certified vendors.
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Edward Snowden is Happy With Life in Russia
The fugitive leaker warns that the U.S. is ill-equipped to stop foreign cyberattacks—and opens up about how much he likes living under asylum in Russia.
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How a Seattle Programmer Used Public Records Laws to Push Police to Fix a Surveillance Video Tech Headache
In an expansive interview, a formerly anonymous systems analyst details his plans to assist law enforcement on automated video redactions and greater transparency.
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The FBI Is Working With France to Find the Charlie Hebdo Gunmen
Agents are conducting “various database searches” to hunt down the attackers.
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Kim Jong-un’s Operating System Now Available in the Free World
The jingle that plays when you boot up the system is a popular Korean folksong, Motherboard reports.
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IBM’s Full-Court Press to Capture DOD Health Records Contract
DOD is expected in June 2015 to award the $11 billion contract for overhauling its electronic health records system.
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DISA Aims for Next-Gen System to Secure Millions of Connected Devices
A Jan. 5 request for information queries contractors on a “next-generation” system that would allow the agency to better configure, secure and keep tabs on millions of devices connected to DOD’s networks.
Tech
NASA Scientists Just Discovered the Most Earth-like Planet Ever
Kepler 438b is believed to be 12% larger than Earth and lies within its sun’s "just right" zone.
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Inspectors Warn: Scrap Proposed $443 Million Border Drone Surge
U.S. unmanned jets fielded to catch border trespassers have not proved their worth and DHS is lowballing cost estimates, the watchdog reported.
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Sony Hack Signals ‘New Normal’ in Cybersecurity
The attack on the entertainment conglomerate illustrates the cold reality of the cybersecurity landscape today: It’s likely to get worse before it gets better.
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US Digital Service Hauled in to Shore up White House Security After Hack
The U.S. Digital Service -- the newly minted federal IT fix-it shop headed by former Google engineer Mikey Dickerson -- has been dispatched to look at shoring up security on the White House networks.
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Watchdog Wants to Know if DOD Has Actually Saved Money by Jumping to the Cloud
Audit to determine whether DOD components performed cost-benefit analyses before buying cloud services.
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NWS Says 'No Involvement' from China-Owned Unit in IBM Supercomputer Deal
The National Weather Service will get forecast-boosting supercomputers that will increase processing capacity by almost tenfold.
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The CIA's Watchdog Is Resigning After Revealing That Spies Hacked the Senate
Inspector General David Buckley will step down at the end of the month, the agency said.
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Why Commercial Clouds are More Secure than Federal Data Centers
It’s time to add security as a reason for, not against, moving federal applications to the commercial cloud.
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