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Shortage of Fed info security pros creates risk
Dickie George, the technical director of the National Security Agency's (NSA) Information Assurance Directorate, told GovInfoSecurity.com in an interview that the shortage of skilled information... Read more...
Release of secret documents delayed
President Obama is pledging an unprecedented age of transparency, but the spy agencies are holding him up. There are a number of documents--all more than 25 years old--that the administration has not... Read more...
NSA uses Facebook, too
Even the super-secret National Security Agency is using Facebook to recruit new employees. The Washington Post describes the agency as one "where you're practically strip-searched to get in."... Read more...
NSA to build $1.5B cybersecurity center
The National Security Agency (NSA) is planning to build a new $1.5 billion cybersecurity data center at the Utah National Guard's Camp Williams near Salt Lake City. Construction of the new center... Read more...
NSA plans huge data center in Utah
The National Security Agency, the intelligence community's electronic spying arm, is moving ahead with plans to build a one million square foot data center in Utah. This facility is part of a broader... Read more...
Former DHS IT official to head ICANN
Rod Beckstrom, who served as head of the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Center, has been named the new chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Keeping government IT ever-ready
Melissa Hathaway, the acting senior director for cyberspace in the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, tells Federal News Radio that agencies weren't quite ready when the Confikr worm... Read more...
NSA on hot seat over email spying
It's one thing to have a subpoena that allows a government agency to spy on a potential criminal. It's quite another for the National Security Agency to jump right in without any authority and... Read more...
NSA spies on Americans
The super secretive National Security Agency, by law, is allowed to collect electronic surveillance of foreigners overseas. But the New York Times reports that it has intercepted private email... Read more...
White House eyes control of cybersecurity
The disarray and lack of coordination in the federal government's approach to cybersecurity oversight may lead the Obama administration to take away control of operations from the Department of... Read more...
