The Government Accountability Office has identified several vulnerabilities in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servicesâ technical controls for systems that support the federal health insurance marketplace. GAO said Wednesday it found insufficient
MoreLt. Gen. Robert Ferrell, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, estimates it will take more than one year for the military service to update its legacy computers to Microsoft‘s Windows 10 operating
MoreThe Department of Homeland Security has proposed to restructure its National Protection and Programs Directorate into a new organization that will focus on addressing threats to U.S. cyber and physical systems, according to a Lawfare blog
MoreA federal grand jury has indicted seven Iranian people whom government investigators believe have orchestrated extensive denial-of-service attacks on U.S. financial services institutions between December 2012 and September 2013. The Justice Department said Thursday computer hacking
MoreThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a three-year competition that seeks to develop machine-learning platforms designed to allow civilian and military wireless devices to gain access to the electromagnetic spectrum. DARPA launched
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A Chinese national has entered a guilty plea in California for his involvement in a conspiracy to steal military technical information through intrusions into U.S. defense contractorsâ computer networks and transmit the
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Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker has appointed Kiersten Todt, former managing partner and president of Liberty Group Ventures, as executive director for the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. The Commerce Department said Wednesday Todt will work
MoreHouse appropriators have drafted new legislation that seeks to limit some healthcare-related funds for the Department of Veterans Affairs until the VA certifies the interoperability of its electronic health records with the Defense
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The Department of Homeland Security‘s Office of Inspector General looks to migrate its local data center infrastructure to a federal cloud computing platform as part of an information technology modernization initiative, Federal
MoreScientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a technique that could potentially help international inspectors find secret sites used for underground nuclear tests within a search area of 1,000 square
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