Report: Army Contracting Command Benefits from Social Medias

According to the Fort Leavenworth Lamp, the U.S. Army Contracting Command is embracing social media to help its public relations strategy. Hundreds of millions of people use social networking sites including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. 

“Statistically, social networking sites are where people spend most of their online time,” said Art Forster, director…

IBM Adds Social Net Tools Ahead of Mobile Rush in Office

The “Bring Your Own Device” trend is all the rage at workplaces across the country and IBM unveiled new social networking and collaboration applications Wednesday to help employees get on the company’s secure enterprise networks.

IBM itself is also part of the BYOD trend, as previously covered here on The New New Internet. IBM said in its…

Agencies Hopping on Google Plus Bandwagon

NASA led the way in joining Google Plus, and now more federal agencies are quickly following.

The U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the National Nuclear Security Administration, among other agencies, have now joined Google’s social network, according to a report from Information Week.

Originally only made available to individual users, Google Plus was…

NASA First Agency to Join Google Plus

Once selected as the most innovative federal agency by the Partnership for Public Service, NASA is on the forefront yet again as it is apparently the first agency to join Google Plus.

The space agency’s Google Plus page went live Monday, the same day Google began to open its…

Yahoo Testing ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ Theory on Facebook

Yahoo Research launched an online study this week to test the well-known social theory that says any two people can be linked through six degrees of separation.

To pull off the Small World Experiment, Yahoo is asking for help from the the nearly 750 million Facebook users.

Any Facebook user can…

DISA Adds Social Networking to Forge.mil

The Defense Information Systems Agency has added a new element to its Forge.mil family of services: social networking.

Forge.mil Community will help users connect, collaborate, share information and manage content, as well as provide a more holistic view of Forge.mil activities, the agency said in a release.

“We knew the community layer would be…

NIST Seeks Input on Overhauled Catalog for Federal Information Systems

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking comments from the public on its biennial update of the catalog of security controls for the federal government, which provides a series of management, operational and protective measures that can be used by federal agencies to help protect their information systems.

The publication in question is Recommended…

Survey: Security Pros ‘Stretched Thin’ Due to Higher Tech Adoption

The growing number of technologies implemented by businesses is posing a challenge to information security executives and their staffs, potentially jeopardizing the security of government agencies, corporations and consumers worldwide over the next several years, according to a…

Report: Passwords Are, Like, So Not Cool

Gone are the days of teens keeping their diaries under lock and key: Now, their deepest, darkest thoughts are for the world to see, according to new findings indicating that less than half of 18-25-year-olds across the United States, UK and Australia use passwords to protect their laptops and mobile…

Report: Cyber-Crime Victims Often Blame Themselves

A Symantec report has found that a majority of cyber-crime victims blame themselves for the web attack, experiencing a sense of powerlessness and lack of justice.

More than 7,000 adults from 14 countries took part in research for the Norton Cybercrime Report: The Human Impact, which revealed that nearly 65 percent of adults globally have…