Tag: Technology

September 29, 2023

Federal agencies are racing to release guidance for staff as a looming government shutdown threatens to furlough thousands of employees, disrupt critical services and reduce national cyber operations to skeleton crews. Federal employees are learning whether they will be considered […]

August 17, 2023

Finding out more about the mysteries of life’s origins on Earth is important, especially as we try to find life beyond our solar system. A new bit of research could change everything, finally bridging how Earth went from being a […]

August 16, 2023

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, wants artificial intelligence companies to commit to extending existing voluntary pledges to all of their systems and make more commitments to address high-risk areas like real-time facial recognition. […]

August 11, 2023

The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) recently collaborated to produce an important new document, “Identity and Access Management: Recommended Best Practices for Administrators.” Part of the Enduring Security Framework (ESF), it presents a distillation […]

August 10, 2023

The Federal Election Commission has begun a process to potentially regulate AI-generated deepfakes in political ads ahead of the 2024 election, a move advocates say would safeguard voters against a particularly insidious form of election disinformation. The FEC’s unanimous procedural […]

June 30, 2023

In 2020, software company SolarWinds was hit with a cyberattack that compromised its Orion supply chain software. The attack impacted thousands of victims. Three years later, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing its investigation into the attack. […]

June 30, 2023

House lawmakers are urging federal agencies to quickly and aggressively adopt artificial intelligence technology, at a time when the push from civil rights and industry groups for new AI regulations is still waiting to get off the ground. The House […]

June 29, 2023

The Biden administration’s internal analysis of its proposed power plant crackdown is based on overly rosy assumptions that experts argue vastly downplay how the regulations are projected to impact power grid reliability and costs. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulatory […]

June 28, 2023

Hundreds of internet-connected devices found on federal systems remain vulnerable to critical cybersecurity threats, according to new research, despite a recent directive from the nation’s cyber defense agency requiring their removal from government networks. Researchers with the security firm Censys […]

June 26, 2023

Innovating feels too risky for the administrators of public benefit programs, and that’s holding back progress on customer experience efforts meant to make it less arduous to get government benefits, according to a recent white paper from the National Academy […]

March 28, 2023

President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Republicans’ ideas for cutting the budget could undermine U.S. manufacturing and help China dominate the world economy. Speaking at a semiconductor maker in North Carolina to highlight his own policies, Biden is trying to […]

February 28, 2023

Microsoft clearly has more than a few kinks to work out in its new AI-powered Bing chat before it’s ready for primetime, but that isn’t stopping the company from expanding the feature throughout its ecosystem at a surprisingly rapid pace. […]

December 9, 2022

Falling demand, China’s Covid Zero policies, the rising cost of living, and recession fears have made 2022 a bad year for tech giants. Demand for everything from smartphones to PCs has fallen, and mass layoffs have become a regular sight. […]

December 7, 2022

As companies migrate to the cloud, many providers are serving up industry clouds—cloud services that offer data models and workflows that meet the basic needs of companies in particular industries like banking, healthcare, and manufacturing. By taking care of table […]

December 6, 2022

AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader in securing application connectivity, announced today that it has acquired Prevasio, a SaaS cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that includes an agentless cloud security posture management (CSPM) platform, anti-malware scan, vulnerability assessment and dynamic analysis […]

December 1, 2022

Security researchers recently probed IBM Cloud’s database-as-a-service infrastructure and found several security issues that granted them access to the internal server used to build database images for customer deployments. The demonstrated attack highlights some common security oversights that can lead […]

November 23, 2022

Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. EA helps organizations structure IT projects and policies to achieve desired business results, to stay agile and resilient in the […]

November 22, 2022

Higher education is entering a new era of data-driven insights, which promise to elevate both learner experience and institutional performance. The HE colleges and universities capable of collecting and leveraging data in a timely manner will not only boost student […]

November 1, 2022

The White House has united dozens of nations and representatives from big tech companies for a two-day summit aimed at figuring out how to tackle the global ransomware problem. “When you look at government networks, as we know — Costa […]

October 28, 2022

Email security and threat detection company Vade has found that phishing emails in the third quarter this year increased by more than 31% quarter on quarter, with the number of emails containing malware in the first three quarters surpassing the […]