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Steve Cooper takes a new government job
Steve Cooper, once a familiar face at the Department of Homeland Security, is returning to the federal government as the CIO of the Federal Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Organization (ATO),... Read more...
FAA computer glitch causes widespread delays
The disruption of hundreds of commercial airline flights for as long as four hours last week was caused by a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) computer breakdown, one that actually involved a... Read more...
Feds go mobile
The federal government is getting turned on to mobile technology, buying off-the-shelf equipment, services and software to handle its growing communications needs, according to an article in Monday's... Read more...
ID management remains a problem
Controlling proper access to government computers is a big challenge for some federal agencies, creating security issues and involving high costs. At the Department of Health and Human Services,... Read more...
Steve Cooper to become the FAA's CIO?
The summer rumor mill is grinding away, and this time it centers on Steve Copper, the first chief information officer at the Department of Homeland Security from 2003 to 2005. Allan Holmes, of... Read more...
Cyber attacks show federal security gaps
Attacks that disrupted a number federal websites this month--including the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of the Treasury--have highlighted serious flaws... Read more...
Holiday cyberattacks hit U.S. government sites
A number of U.S. government agencies have been hit by cyberattacks since the July 4th holiday, and while little information is coming out right now, authorities suspect the culprit may be North... Read more...
Fed CIO outlines security holes
Vivek Kundra, the nation's first federal Chief Information Officer, testified before Congress on Tuesday that the seven-year-old Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) was old and rusty.... Read more...
IG: FAA computers highly vulnerable
A new report released Wednesday by the Transportation Department's Inspector General said Federal Aviation Administration computers have been hacked many times in recent years, and warned that... Read more...
Air Traffic control systems vulerable
You would think that it's cybersecurity protection week with the number of articles out in public about cyberattacks and the vulnerabilities of the federal government's many networks. In one case,... Read more...
