The Social Security Administration is struggling to provide benefits to a growing number of retiring baby boomers. At the same time it does not have a modern, online system to deploy. The obstacle is... Read more...

E-Verify has been a thorn in the federal government's side since Day One. The system allows employers to check an individual's Social Security Number to verify whether the number is valid. However,... Read more...

The National Guard issued a warning this week that a stolen laptop may hold the personal information of more than 130,000 current and former Army National Guard members. The laptop contained Social... Read more...

The Obama administration is implementing E-Verify on Sept. 8, the controversial program requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to ensure that their employees are legally authorized to work... Read more...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University reported this week that, in this era of widespread use of computers and sophisticated software, the Social Security numbering system is more vulnerable to... Read more...

The Obama administration is trying to implement e-Verify, the employment verification system for contractors, but they are delaying it again--for the fourth time. These delays cannot help but... Read more...

The National Archives has a very big cyber disaster on its hands. It lost a computer hard drive containing massive amounts of sensitive data from the Clinton administration. The information includes... Read more...

The Social Security Administration will take a giant step toward retrieving electronic health records when it begins testing how they can be used for SSA claims on Feb. 28. The agency will retrieve... Read more...