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The official and unofficial Pentagon Facebook sites
The Pentagon has official Facebook sites, and then, of course, there are those sites set up by military families, fans, supporters and possibly interlopers. Janson Communications, a public relations... Read more...
Pentagon opens door to social media
The Pentagon opened its doors to social media last week, changing its policies to allow soldiers to use DoD's non-classified network for Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. In the past, each... Read more...
Pentagon lifts thumb drive ban
Thumb drives had been banned on U.S. military networks, but no longer. The concern about using memory sticks, CD's and removable flash media was obvious--the potential for loss or theft of data and... Read more...
That new war: The digital one
The Pentagon is scratching its head as it frantically looks for ways to deal with the increasing threat of cyberattacks. Earlier this month, officials gathered to simulate a cyberattack that could... Read more...
Pentagon's cybercommand plans stall
The Pentagon is finding out that even the best cybersecurity plans get hung up over bureaucracy and congressional worries about issues such as privacy. That's the case with Department of Defense's... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Pentagon to save money by insourcing
The Pentagon expects to save an average of $44,000 a year for every contractor it replaces with a full-time federal employee to perform critical defense jobs. The plans calls for insourcing a wide... Read more...
Military wins conviction in counterfeit chips case
A California man pled guilty to trafficking counterfeit computer chips to the U.S. military, the Justice Department announced last week. Neil Fehaly agreed to cooperate with the government as part of... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: (ISC)2 credentials approved for DoD IT security workers
The Pentagon has given the green light for (ISC)2 credentials. It requires all DoD information assurance workers obtain a professional certification accredited under the global ANSI/ISO/IEC Standard... Read more...
IG: DoD fails to scrub discarded IT hardware
The Pentagon's inspector general has discovered that some Defense Department units have not removed data from information technology equipment before disposing of the hardware. The result, said the... Read more...
Analyst charged with hacking into classified data
Many intelligence experts warn that the worst threats come from within, not from the outside. And that certainly is the case with this latest incident involving an analyst at a Defense Department spy... Read more...
