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Why Some Agencies Want a One-Size-Fits-All Policy for Mobile Devices
There are no uniform BYOD security requirements for tapping into the cloud.
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Why This Tech Historian Thinks Robots are the Key to Human Innovation
Federal researchers and policy-makers need to team up not only with each other but also with machine counterparts.
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Mikey Dickerson: Tech Recruiting Not as Busted As You Think
There’s no shortage of federal outsiders interested in solving public-sector problems, according to Mikey Dickerson.
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DHS Expects to Outsource Employment Verification Checks to the Cloud
Draft contract states ID confirmation for "MyE-Verify" would be hosted in a remote facility.
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More Federal Employees Are Teleworking More Often
The uptick is slight but steady, survey of feds shows.
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Geospatial Agency Goes Unclassified for Ebola Effort
The online Ebola tools the agency is offering NGOs provide much more dynamic capabilities than those previously deployed by the agency.
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10 Crazy Devices the Secret Service Could Use to Put the Kibosh on Fence Jumping
Terminator-like "RoBo," modeled after first dog Bo, should replace human agents.
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VA: Hackers Never Siphoned Data Out of Our Systems
Veterans Affairs experiences 55,000 malware attacks a day, agency official says.
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Congress Wants to Probe the Internet of Things. Here’s What It Should Focus On
A bipartisan contingent of senators have requested a “general oversight” hearing on the Internet of Things by year’s end.
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Can the U.S. Government Get Its DATA Act Together?
The full promise of the DATA Act won’t be realized anytime soon. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
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VA Introduces 'Google-like' Medical Record Search Functions
The new user interface includes patient “newsfeed."
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IRS Agrees It Wastes Money on Software -- But Not That Much
Agency CTO disputes IG findings but agrees to manage licenses better.
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The Number of Industries Getting Classified Cyberthreat Tips from DHS Has Doubled Since July
The banking, chemical, water, information technology and transportation sectors all recently joined.
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Mobile Devices Will Transform How Government Fieldwork Gets Done
IPads and iPhones can do more than make field workers more efficient in creating reports and reducing paperwork.
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Navy Will Get Its Microsoft Cloud Email from Dell in $2.1M Deal
The Navy sees hundreds of millions of dollars in savings over the Next Generation Enterprise Network.
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Facebook to Feds: Stop Impersonating Our Users
The social network accused the DEA of threatening "the integrity of our community" by pretending to be a New York woman on the site.
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Corrupted Ads Hijack Viewers of Popular YouTube Music Video
"Ransomware" hosted on a hacked Polish site then tries to hold the user’s computer hostage.
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Obama Orders Two-Step IDs to Combat Credit Card Hacks
The executive order also requires agencies to switch to multifactor authentication to access sites that store citizens' personal information.
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Ebola Vaccine Development Probably Too Late to Deal with Current Crisis
A major drug firm says it will take until 2016 to ramp up production.
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