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DHS Drafts Blueprints for Self-Repairing Networks as Hacks Mount

Resiliency is the key to preventing the attackers from finding sensitive information or disrupting activities, experts say.

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Of Asteroids and ETs: How Cloud Innovation is Driving Space Exploration

In just a few years, cloud computing could help aid the search for extraterrestrial life.

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Keystone State Aims to Kill the Password

The commonwealth's login network could help secure online shopping and other e-commerce services worldwide.

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Federal Customer Experience 'Downright Bleak'

Six federal agencies earned an average of “very poor." HealthCare.gov scored the lowest.

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Why Big Data Needs ‘Dummy Data’

Instead of original data, a structurally similar but obscured version of the data, or “dummy data”, is used for development and testing environments.

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Telework on Trial? House Committees to Probe Patent Office Telework Fraud

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the House Judiciary Committee team up for a joint hearing next week.

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Why Veterans Make Good Cyberwarriors

Putting returning warfighters back to work as cyberdefenders makes sense, advocates say.

Oversight

Sen. Johnson Speaks on Aligning Public-Private Sector Pay, Keeping Hearings Polite

Likely Homeland Security panel priorities also include securing border, cyber safety, regulatory rollback.

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Postal Employees, You've Been Hacked. What Now?

The FBI and DHS are still investigating an intrusion into USPS personnel systems.

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In Case of Emergency, the UN Wants You to Tweet This

A new U.N. report aims to set out best practices for using hashtags during emergencies.

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BlackBerry Says It’s Staging a Comeback - But Nobody Told the Feds

The company has installed a new leadership team, slashed operating expenses by $2 billion and is still making “awesome” devices, new COO says.

Tech

A Little Ship Just Saved the International Space Station

Meet the Georges Lemaître, which helped the orbiting laboratory—currently home to six humans—to avoid a potentially disastrous collision with space junk.

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Rap Sheets, Watchlists and Spy Networks Now Available With Single Click

DNI flips the switch on a single sign-on tool for sharing sensitive information.

Defense One

The Military Wants New Technologies To Fight Drones

These are the technologies we will use to counter drones in the future. By Patrick Tucker

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In Off-the-Grid West Africa, How Can Tech Fight Ebola?

For now, a big piece of USAID’s efforts lie in improving the technology doctors and nurses use when treating patients with Ebola.

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Verizon Latest to Achieve FedRAMP Compliance

ATO legitimizes ECFE as government worthy and makes its cloud services easier to adopt.

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Long-awaited FISMA Reforms May Hit Stumbling Block

The House and Senate have hit a road bump trying to update a 2002 law covering federal computer security.