The chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs said Congress is way behind on cybersecurity knowhow, adding that lawmakers often refrain from taking…
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s IT subcommittee took the federal government to task in an op-ed Wednesday over its lack of response…
The Obama administration announced the formation of the National Background Investigations Bureau, transitioning the responsibility of government-wide background checks away from OPM’s Federal Investigative Services.
Mike Echols, who is DHS’ point person for implementation of President Barack Obama’s February 2015 cybersecurity executive order, spoke about how both the public and private sector…
“Passw0rd” is not a secure password, but it is the 24th most popular one in the world, according to SplashData's fifth annual analysis of stolen user-data dumped…
Congress, which has made hiring federal cybersecurity workers a priority issue, has too little data about that workforce and no real way of knowing whether its own…
Nearly 12,000 Interior Department laptops are inadequately protected against the theft of personally identifiable information due to poorly configured software.