Tech
Feds displaced by flooding offered use of telework centers
Month-long closure of IRS headquarters prompts GSA to open its 14 telework centers to affected employees at no charge.
Tech
DHS lags in appointing cybersecurity czar
Nearly a year after Michael Chertoff announced the creation of the position, it remains vacant.
Tech
OMB lists products meeting ID card requirement
Agencies have until late September to finish ordering GSA-approved products to comply with mandate to issue identity cards.
Tech
House steps up telework requirements at several agencies
Agencies would face financial penalties if they fail to increase the number of employees eligible to work away from the office.
Tech
VA info security chief says he had impossible task
Pedro Cadenas, who abruptly resigned his post, says in more than three years on job, he lacked authority to make substantive changes.
Defense
Stolen equipment holding veterans’ records recovered
Preliminary investigation reveals that the data is intact and has not been accessed since early May theft.
Tech
House member weighing legislation in response to VA data breach
Possibilities include changes to information security law and linking compliance with IT policies to performance reviews.
Defense
Experts cautiously embrace adoption of wireless ID tags
Use of such technology has reduced government defense costs by millions, one expert says.
Tech
VA to issue new directive on employees’ responsibility for data
Class action lawsuit results in order blocking another security directive, including requirement to review agency laptops.
Tech
Agencies lag in preparedness for upgraded Internet
Survey shows that IT managers viewed security as the most important benefit of the next-generation Internet.
Tech
White House seeks $160 million in response to VA data breach
OMB would offset up to $30 million from within VA accounts; Democrats concerned this could detract from veterans' benefits.
Tech
GAO, Navy add to growing list of federal data breaches
Rash of breaches prompts OMB to release new checklist of information security safeguards.
Tech
Law enforcers want help from social networking sites
Justice Department weighs mandating that Internet service providers retain data for defined period.
Defense
Senate vote blocks funding for Defense Travel System
Pentagon's long-awaited departmentwide electronic booking system is once again on the chopping block.
Tech
VA official defends memos restricting IT centralization
Department’s general counsel says he was limited to interpreting the current law and could not make a policy decision.
Tech
House panel OKs office to compensate vets for ID theft
Office would process claims of veterans who might have their identities stolen as a result of data breach last month.
Tech
VA official opposes centralization of IT management
House panel is holding a hearing Thursday to probe the department’s technology management structure.
Defense
Bid to block funds for Defense Travel System fails
The Pentagon's end-to-end booking system escaped a House member’s attempt to shut it down, but a Senate vote looms.
Tech
Expert shares ideas for protecting government data
Ability to remotely tell a laptop to stop working would solve the problem of stolen laptops, former White House cybersecurity adviser says.
Defense