FBI Director Robert Mueller has appointed 23-year bureau veteran Stephanie Douglas executive assistant director of the national security branch, the bureau announced Wednesday. She will succeed Mark Giuliano, who has been named
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FBI Director Robert Mueller has appointed Robert Anderson Jr. assistant director of the counterintelligence division at the bureau’s headquarters, the FBI announced Friday. Since 2011, Anderson has served as the division’s deputy
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President Barack Obama appointed Deputy Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Huerta to a full-five year term in the agency’s top post, the White House announced Tuesday. Huerta has served as the acting
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The American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council held its Excellence.gov awards last week, AOL Government reports. Thirty finalists vied for 6 awards that recognize government programs and projects that utilize information technology
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A Defense Department official has gone on the record saying the Department of Homeland Security should be the government entity with the principal responsibility for helping secure critical U.S. infrastructure from cyber
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FBI Director Robert Mueller told security professionals Thursday the bureau views cyber threats at the same level of concern as terrorism. Mueller said the FBI still views terrorism as a top priority
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DARPA recently announced that its shredder challenge, issued about a month ago and tasking participants to piece back together five shredded documents, was solved in 33 days. The winning team was a San Francisco-based group
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“We must keep adapting to these changing terrorist threats, to stay one step ahead of those who would do us harm,” FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said Thursday. Mueller made these remarks
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Cybersecurity is still a major worry of government IT personnel, presenting an opportunity for data protection vendors, according to two recent surveys by Cisco and MeriTalk. In the Cisco-sponsored study, 71 percent of the
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Threatened cuts to defense approaching $1 trillion over the next 10 years could add 1 percent to the nation’s unemployment rate, a Defense Department official said Thursday. As part of the debt
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