“Birthmarks, be damned: the FBI has officially started rolling out a state-of-the-art face recognition project that will assist in their effort to accumulate and archive information about each and every American at a cost of a billion dollars. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a ...
A recent report has revealed that government contractors have been the victims of a series of phishing attacks. The attacks, which were first detected in 2009 and haven’t let up, pump outspam that turns out to be fake invites to industry relevant conferences and contain links to PDF files....
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that law enforcement authorities need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move....
As of Jan. 6 all prime- and sub- contractors providing the General Services Administration with information technology supplies, services or systems are required to submit an IT security plan outlining compliance with federal cybersecurity regulations....
The Defense Department says it has a departmentwide information technology plan that will allow flexible adoption of emerging technology while taking “appropriate actions” for projects that are “not producing.” The IT Enterprise Strategy and Roadmap (.pdf) provides some cla...
The feds are making steady progress on a 25-point plan to reform IT introduced a year ago Friday, having already delivered on 14 goals of the plan and realizing nearly $1 billion in savings from one of its key initiatives, U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel said Thursday. VanRoekel held a press conference Th...
Federal agencies with the largest information technology budgets do not know the size of their cybersecurity workforce because there is no cybersecurity occupational series, or even a standard set of definitions for IT jobs, writes the Government Accountability Office in a report (.pdf) published ...
Health data exchange policies associated with the HITECH Act (.pdf) are taking shape, but a Health and Human Services Department official says providers’ incomplete implementation of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act has emerged as a unexpected hurdle. HHS knew provid...