In a time when other political candidates are polishing their golf clubs in Scotland – or rather have other people polish them, and describe Brexit as a “great thing”, Hillary Clinton announced her tech agenda. Friendly for the commercial technology sector – with better incentives for startups, impr
In an ongoing chain of twists, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) breach got another development today. After a lone hacker named Guccifer 2.0 claimed he was responsible for the breach, another security firm reinforces the original findings – that Russian hacker groups, codenamed “Cozy Bear” an
One of this week’s top stories featured the Democratic National Committee (DNC) breach, where allegedly a group of Russian hackers stole opposition research on Donald Trump, the Republican president candidate. Security firm Crowdstrike was hired to mitigate the data breach – and informed that their
Over $80 billion are invested in government IT annually – a large amount reportedly for maintaining existing systems, therefore efficiency studies are required at some points. The United States Government Accountability Office assessed federal agencies’ IT O&M spending, evaluated the oversight o
Remember those movie scenes where the protagonists are trying to track someone down, and they have to keep them on the phone until the police or agency can pinpoint the perp’s location? They usually need about 1 minute or so for the tracking software to work, but the bad guys always seem to know e
The U.S. Government just took a big commitment towards open-source software. The “ Federal Source Code Policy — Achieving Efficiency, Transparency, and Innovation through Reusable and Open Source Software ” paper sheds some light on the Government’s plan to improve the acquisitions, building, and de
