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Geospatial Agency Goes Unclassified for Ebola Effort
The online Ebola tools the agency is offering NGOs provide much more dynamic capabilities than those previously deployed by the agency.
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10 Crazy Devices the Secret Service Could Use to Put the Kibosh on Fence Jumping
Terminator-like "RoBo," modeled after first dog Bo, should replace human agents.
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VA: Hackers Never Siphoned Data Out of Our Systems
Veterans Affairs experiences 55,000 malware attacks a day, agency official says.
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Congress Wants to Probe the Internet of Things. Here’s What It Should Focus On
A bipartisan contingent of senators have requested a “general oversight” hearing on the Internet of Things by year’s end.
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Can the U.S. Government Get Its DATA Act Together?
The full promise of the DATA Act won’t be realized anytime soon. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
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VA Introduces 'Google-like' Medical Record Search Functions
The new user interface includes patient “newsfeed."
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IRS Agrees It Wastes Money on Software -- But Not That Much
Agency CTO disputes IG findings but agrees to manage licenses better.
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The Number of Industries Getting Classified Cyberthreat Tips from DHS Has Doubled Since July
The banking, chemical, water, information technology and transportation sectors all recently joined.
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Mobile Devices Will Transform How Government Fieldwork Gets Done
IPads and iPhones can do more than make field workers more efficient in creating reports and reducing paperwork.
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Navy Will Get Its Microsoft Cloud Email from Dell in $2.1M Deal
The Navy sees hundreds of millions of dollars in savings over the Next Generation Enterprise Network.
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Facebook to Feds: Stop Impersonating Our Users
The social network accused the DEA of threatening "the integrity of our community" by pretending to be a New York woman on the site.
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Corrupted Ads Hijack Viewers of Popular YouTube Music Video
"Ransomware" hosted on a hacked Polish site then tries to hold the user’s computer hostage.
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Obama Orders Two-Step IDs to Combat Credit Card Hacks
The executive order also requires agencies to switch to multifactor authentication to access sites that store citizens' personal information.
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Ebola Vaccine Development Probably Too Late to Deal with Current Crisis
A major drug firm says it will take until 2016 to ramp up production.
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FBI Director: Actually, We Do Sometimes Spy Without a Warrant
James Comey admitted on Thursday, “There are exceptions” to the agency’s warrant-first rule for surveillance.
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Tornado Swarms Are Now Upon Us
Twisters are arriving more frequently in large "clusters," say NOAA scientists.
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VA Plans to Build Nationwide High-Frequency Radio Network to Communicate During Emergencies
Network will cover more than 200 VA medical facilities.
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Mark Udall Touts NSA Reform (and Dings Obama) in Bid to Save Senate Seat
One of the Senate’s fiercest critics of government surveillance is attempting to leverage his track record on the issue to salvage his reelection.
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Data Is Driving STEM Recruitment
From heat maps to workforce demographics, the search for talent is on.
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