In a hearing in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Director Of National Intelligence James Clapper testified that the unclassified version of the executive-mandated report on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election is scheduled to be released early next week and will “push the envelope” to provide the public with as much information as possible. […]

When dealing with cybersecurity policy, President-elect Donald Trump should realize that the Federal government is not a business, according to a report this month from the Center for Strategic and International Studies Cyber Policy Task Force. […]

Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., said he plans to introduce two bills in Congress that would investigate Russian involvement in the 2016 election hacks and introduce sanctions against the country for its involvement. […]

The DHS-FBI Joint Analysis Report sheds light on the tools Russian intelligence officers used to compromise the networks and infrastructure associated with the recent U.S. presidential election. […]

The State Department met with representatives from the European Union to discuss preparedness for cyberattacks and the U.S. National Cyber Incident Response Plan. […]

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs created a smartphone app that contains the status of agency regulatory actions. The app, RegInfo Mobile, is based on the website RegInfo.gov. […]

More and more Federal agencies will adopt bring your own device policies in 2017, and industries will keep up with solutions to secure the devices, according to Glenn Roth, Citrix senior systems engineer for U.S. public sector. […]

The U.S. government has not done enough to support the Internet of Things, which could cause the nation to miss out on social and economic benefits, according to a Center for Data Innovation report released last week. […]

A new partnership between George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and Ligado Networks is hoping to demonstrate the feasibility of delivering NOAA real-time weather data to users across the country at a lower cost, using a cloud-based network. […]

Artificial intelligence has the potential to increase living standards and leisure hours, but it could also increase economic inequality, according to a report by the White House. […]

Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., sent a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday, calling for a Select Committee on Cybersecurity that would be able to cross the jurisdictional lines of more than 80 committees and subcommittees in order to “investigate pressing cybersecurity matters.” […]

The use of government emails as the backup and recovery email on many Yahoo accounts led to the exposure of more than 150,000 U.S. government and military employees in a recent Yahoo email breach, according to Andrew Komarov, chief intelligence officer at InfoArmor. […]

Thirteen universities recently received grants from NASA’s Space Technology Research Grants Program worth as much as $500,000 each. The goal of this program is to accelerate the development of space technologies in their earliest stages to enable future systems capabilities and missions for NASA, other government agencies, and the commercial space sector. […]

In coordination with Europol’s European Cyber Crime Centre, the FBI conducted a series of interviews and arrests Dec. 5-9 aimed at reducing the number of young people acting as Distributed Denial of Service-for-hire hackers. […]

President Obama said that the United States’ response to Russian hacking during the election will be between the U.S. government and the Russian government. “There are times where the message will be privately received by the Russians and will not be publicized,” Obama said. […]

Cybersecurity is a top priority for program managers at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar who are designing an energy security microgrid. […]

Through a new open data project, the Department of Defense will make information on the Korean War publicly available for the first time on Dec. 19, and the Air Force major who helped design the portal said he looks forward to what civilians will do with this data. […]

A lack of clear technology policy established during Donald’s Trump’s campaigning and preparations as president-elect is making it difficult to determine what the future of tech policy is going to look like, according to experts speaking at an Information Technology Innovation Foundation (ITIF) panel on Thursday. […]

Though governments around the world have made an effort to establish national cybersecurity strategies, 66 percent of cybersecurity professionals said that those strategies were incoherent or incomplete, according to a survey conducted by the Enterprise Strategy Group and Information Systems Security Association. […]

ZeroPoint Dynamics, a start-up company specializing in technology that can detect exploit payloads in email and Web content, will be commercialized through the Department of Homeland Security Cyber Security Division’s Transition to Practice program. […]

Education on how Federal programs can best use the cloud is going to pick up this year as agencies continue the transition away from legacy IT, according to Rob Morrow, public sector chief technology officer at Cloudera. […]

A group of employees at major technology companies signed a pledge never to build a database based on religious beliefs. […]

President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the phone with Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, about innovation, Gates told CNBC on Tuesday. Gates’ new business, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, is investing in renewable energy companies that could provide solar and wind energy for the entire continent, build mechanisms that allow natural gas emissions only when renewable energy isn’t working, turn sunlight into fuels directly, and make nuclear fission safer and cheaper. […]

An old technology is exposing health care, critical infrastructure, and other industries to new cybersecurity problems, as a recent Trend Micro survey finds that pagers can cause vulnerable points for hackers to extract personal information. […]

Nearly all Federal government employees are finding that slow, buggy, and sluggishly repaired applications have a negative impact on the productivity of their agency, according to a recent survey released by Riverbed. […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., opened a news conference on Monday saying that recent allegations of Russia’s interference in the presidential election as well as the White House’s announcement of additional election cybersecurity investigations should be treated in a bipartisan manner. […]

Most Federal agencies that have Chief Data Officers like having them, and those without CDOs want them. MeriTalk issued a report on Dec. 12 revealing that 88 percent of agencies with a CDO said these officials are making a positive impact, and 93 percent of agencies without a CDO said having one would be beneficial. The report, titled “Calling the Plays: The Evolving Role of the CDO and Federal Big Data,” was underwritten by ViON. […]

The White House has ordered a “full review” of hacks related to the most recent presidential election, according to Lisa Monaco, President Obama’s adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security. […]

The state of Georgia said it found evidence of an attempted hack on its voter registration database by a Department of Homeland Security device. […]

A majority of the 24 major agencies defined under the CFO Act are expected to meet the deadline to begin reporting their spending information. […]