Tag: IT

July 26, 2023

The Government Accountability Office is offering a window into challenges with modernization efforts and recommendations for the federal government to set up common standards for unemployment insurance tech in a new report on how eight different states are modernizing their […]

July 24, 2023

The White House recently persuaded Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI to sign a document dictating several voluntary commitments for ensuring a “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy” AI. Many things could change in the months to come, starting with […]

July 18, 2023

Federal activity in the generative AI space so far has been limited. While federal agencies have fielded more than a thousand AI use cases, they aren’t yet widely leveraging the content-creation powers of ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and other large language […]

July 14, 2023

The White House released its implementation plan for President Biden’s National Cybersecurity Strategy, broadly breaking down how it plans to accomplish more than 65 tasks involving 18 agencies outlined by the sweeping plan announced in March. The National Cybersecurity Strategy […]

July 10, 2023

The European Commission today finalized its approval of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, in the latest step in a lengthy effort to harmonize the two sets of laws and allow for cross-border data transfer, but critics say that it is […]

July 5, 2023

As the Biden administration continues to develop US cybersecurity requirements on software and supply chain security, zero trust, and incident reporting, among other initiatives, the projects have one often-unstated overarching goal: Improve the cybersecurity resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructure. […]

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 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 28, 2023

K-12 school districts across the country continue to be targeted by threat actors looking to steal sensitive personal information. Examples of this can be seen in the recent incidents affecting the Pearland Independent School District in Texas and the Tucson […]

June 27, 2023

In March 2020, the Social Security Administration division that handles disability claims went on an emergency telework system — like much of the rest of the federal government during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. But the Disability Determination […]

June 27, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is developing a new resource center for federal agencies to help address compliance issues associated with a wave of recent cyber supply chain risk management — or C-SCRM — and software security mandates. The […]

June 27, 2023

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats who control the state Legislature agreed late Monday on how to spend $310.8 billion over the next year, endorsing a plan that covers a nearly $32 billion budget deficit without raiding the state’s […]

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 […]

June 20, 2023

President Joe Biden is expected to meet with a cohort of experts and researchers in the expanding field of artificial intelligence, part of the ongoing executive effort to integrate more private sector and academic expertise into federal technology policy. Announced […]

June 19, 2023

In the latest cyber incident affecting the US federal government, two arms of the US Department of Energy (DOE) and, according to press reports, the US Department of Agriculture and the Office of Personnel Management, have been swept up in […]

June 15, 2023

Hackers working for Russia’s Federal Security Service have mounted multiple cyberattacks that used USB-based malware to steal large amounts of data from Ukrainian targets for use in its ongoing invasion of its smaller neighbor, researchers said. “The sectors and nature […]

June 13, 2023

The U.S. Senate will host its first members-only briefing on Artificial Intelligence this week amid security and election concerns. “Tomorrow, the Senate will convene the first-ever Senators-only briefing on Artificial Intelligence,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted Monday evening. Domestically, […]

June 12, 2023

The Minnesota Department of Education announced Friday that personal information pertaining to about 95,000 students was breached as part of an ongoing and global exploit of a popular file-transfer system. Hackers from the ransomware group known as CL0P recently exploited […]

June 7, 2023

The vast majority of applications developed by public sector organizations over the last year suffered from at least one security flaw, according to a new report that analyzed 750,000 applications developed by the public and private sectors. Software security firm […]