By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. ‘We the People’ 2.0 to include APIs – “White House Deputy Director of Online Platform Peter Welsch wrote on the White House blog that Petitions 1.0, the code “We the People” runs on is complete, opening the door f...
By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories. Homeland Security urges computer users to disconnect network setting – DHS is asking users to disable the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) capability on their home machines. Apparently, security settings on UPnP are minimal, and the setting...
By BobGourley You may have heard of ForgeRock, the providers of open identity solutions. But if you have been busy (and who hasn’t been?) you might not have realized the rapid uptake of their solution among a diverse, global customer base. I spoke with their CTO and founder Lasse Andresen to...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: A breach of the U.S. y has compromised the personal and banking data of 5,100 current employees and 2,700 “other individuals.” More here. The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency awarded a contract for...
NASA has released an API for its recently launched open data site, allowing developers to take data sets from the site and reuse them in new applications. The space agency launched data.nasa.gov in August, a vast collection of digitized data of its observations of earth, other planets in the solar...