Commissioner Charles Rettig told the Senate Finance Committee that the certainty and stability of having multiple years of funding mapped out will help improve the agency's execution. Keep Reading
HHS became the first agency to try out the new direct hire authority for technology positions, less than 24 hours after the final rule came out from OPM. Keep Reading
The key to stopping the hackers, explains Neatsun Ziv, vice president of cyber-security products at Tel Aviv-based Check Point Security Technologies, is to make hacking unprofitable. Keep Reading
They say death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, but years of budget cuts and workforce reductions have made it harder for the IRS to uphold the second half of the bargain. Keep Reading
The IRS, state tax agencies and the private-sector tax industry enacted joint initiatives, many invisible to taxpayers, that have resulted in fewer fraudulent tax returns. Keep Reading
FIN6 intrusion was at a customer within the engineering industry, which seemed out of character due to FIN6’s historical targeting of payment card data. Keep Reading
According to Sherman, IC ITE’s “first epoch” began around 2012-2013, when the community began to launch some of the enterprise’s core services. Keep Reading
The Grants Management Modernization program will use agile development to merge FEMA’s 10 legacy IT systems into a single platform. Keep Reading
As cyber talent gravitates toward higher paying, more flexible jobs in the private sector, the government must look beyond its traditional employee pools, Krebs said. Keep Reading
One example: a September 2016 attack on the hosting provider OVH used a botnet that enlisted approximately 150,000 devices to send 1 terabyte of data per second at the victim’s servers. Keep Reading
