White House will pick innovators to fast track IT game-changers
The Presidential Innovation Fellowship aims to pair public- and private-sector experts to help complete five core IT projects in six months.
House passes CISPA, despite veto threat
The first two cybersecurity bills being considered in the House during "Cyber Week," CISPA and the Federal Information Security Amendments Act, passed April 26; two more bills are to be considered today.
CISPA debate heats up in House as vote nears
Both sides agree on the need to better share threat information, but disagreement on how to protect privacy threatens the bill.
White House: Put teeth into online privacy Bill of Rights
An administration official says that legislation is essential to effective protections in the proposed Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.
White House launches $200M 'Big Data R&D' initiative
Six agencies, with more to follow, will work on ways to dig pertinent information out of the growing mountains of data.
FTC recommends Do Not Track be voluntary -- or else
The commission calls for greater regulation of data brokers and a Do-Not-Track option that could be made law if not adopted voluntarily.
White House e-mail was down 23 percent of Obama's first 40 days
The new administration walked into a White House of ancient IT and crumbling systems, CIO says.
Can simulated attack on NYC power grid bridge the partisan divide?
The demonstration for senators is designed to stress the urgency of passing cybersecurity legislation sooner rather than later.
Obama proposes online privacy bill of rights, voluntary Do Not Track
The administration's plan, which includes a consumer bill of rights and a Do-Not-Track browser feature, gives government limited enforcement powers, but could still have some teeth.
Hackers strike again: California city's site latest target
The city of Sacramento, California's, website is the most recent government website to suffer an attack, which is becoming a trend. So who will be next?
White House: Tech standards are (mostly) industry's job
Standards will be created primarily by industry, but the government will still have a say in national priority areas such as cybersecurity, health care IT and clean energy.
Wikipedia, others staging anti-SOPA blackout; White House weighs in
The online encyclopedia, Reddit and other sites will go dark Jan. 18 in protest, and the Obama administration agrees with their concerns over freedom of speech, Internet commerce and DNS security.
Users: We want a federal app store
A mobile app store and common mobile acquisition practices were among suggestions received from a call for comments by federal CIO Steven VanRoekel.
White House report finds agencies' sites weave a tangled Web
A report from the .gov Reform Task Force finds that federal agencies are all over the map with how many websites they operate, starting with NASA and its more than 1,500 sites.
White House opens the source code for Data.gov
The Data.gov in a Box project with India aims to bring transparency to other governments, but the idea has its doubters.
OMB pushing agencies to streamline the federal domain
Improving the findability of information is a key motivator for the Obama administration's effort to reduce the number of government websites.
Congress, White House ready to throw down over net neutrality
Congress wants to nullify the FCC's net neutrality rules, which would take effect Nov. 20, but the Obama administration has threatened to veto the resolution.
Federal CIO says FedRAMP to be mandatory
Steve VanRoekel said that, if agencies use NIST guidelines, FedRAMP and monitoring when moving to the cloud, they can be a lot more secure than they are today
China puts itself in the cyber crosshairs — what now?
The evidence that China is behind of a lot of hacking against the United States continues to mount; the question is what the United States should do about it.
Secure Android kernel could make for 'classified' smart phones
A public/private research team develops a hardened kernel for Android 3.0, which could lead to widespread use of smart phones in military and emergency operations.
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