It has become evident of recent that agencies are beginning to refocus much of their spending toward cybersecurity related activity. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, for example, plans to increase cybersecurity research spending by 50 percent over the next five years, according to an ExecutiveGov report As the government is making moves to spend [...]
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The federal government is shifting toward cloud computing and Amazon.com is going in the same direction by expanding its cloud sales to the government. The online retailer currently provides cloud-based computer services in 100 government offices, including the State and Treasury departments, according to a Washington Post/Bloomberg report. Amazon joins Google and Microsoft in offering [...]
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Hackers last week broke into The Washington Post’s jobs site and gained access to nearly 1.3 million user IDs and email addresses, the news organization revealed yesterday. Although the hackers were able to access to certain user information on Washington Post Jobs, passwords and personal information such as resumes or contact information were not compromised, [...]
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