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GitHub hires government focused employee, Companies want Lawsuit Shield to share Cyber Threat Data and more

March 7, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. GitHub hires first government-focused employee – GitHub has recently announced the hiring of their first government focused employee. GitHub offers social coding, which opens the development process. “former White House Presidential Innovation Fellow Ben Balter will join its team to focus [...]

Filed Under: CTOvision Tagged With: AT&T, BYOD, cloud computing, CTO, ctovision, cyber security, Cyber Threat, Github, Health IT, Intel, Intuit, OpenSource, PayPal, Resource Nation

Feds OK first FedRAMP firm, Congress trims the spy budget and more

January 2, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By RyanKamauff Happy back to work day folks! Here are the top cyber stories of the day. Naval Reactor Program needed to consider more options for business system - a recent OIG report found that The Naval Reactors Program failed to report spending of more than $10 million or adequately consider commercial off-the-shelf solutions when it improved [...]

Filed Under: Cyber Security Tagged With: Central Intelligence Agency, cloud computing, Computerworld, CTO, ctovision, cyber security, Cyber Threat, DoD and IC, Github, Google Groups, Government, mobile, National security, Naval Reactor Program, Senate, September 11 attacks, White House

Ozone Widget Framework to be on GitHub, GAO sees $2.3B in undeserved justification and more

December 14, 2012 By FedCyberTeam

By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Ozone Widget Framework to be on GitHub now by year’s end - The Ozone Widget Framework is an open source project that allows developers to create lightweight applications that draw from pooled data. This has been bogged down in clearance issues, but has [...]

Filed Under: Cyber Security Tagged With: Big Data, cloud computing, contracts, CTO, ctovision, cyber security, Cyber Threat, DHS, DoD and IC, EHR, GAO, Github, Government, Health IT, HealthIt.gov, Homeland Security Department, Ozone Widget Framework, project blitzkrieg, United States

Flame Cyber Espionage, U.S. Military Chip Backdoor, and More

May 29, 2012 By FedCyberTeam

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Kapersky Labs has uncovered a massive cyber espionage campaign using malware called Flame to collect private data in countries including Iran, Israel, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. More here. Researchers in the UK found a backdoor planted in an American military-grade chip that allows attackers to [...]

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White House Begins Open Sourcing Data.gov

December 6, 2011 By AlexOlesker

The Obama administration has begun to open source pieces of the Data.gov platform and plans to launch a full-scale open source project early next year. This open data platform–called Data.gov-in-a-box–will allow other governments to easily stand up their own versions of Data.gov. Data.gov developer and General Services Administration software architect Chris Musialek last Wednesday posted [...]