Tag: Cybersecurity

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Watch: OPM chief ducks blame for data breach, pins it on ‘whole of government’

Pete Kasperowicz · June 16, 2015 7:11 pm

The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Thursday, June 4, 2015, that data from the Office of Personnel Management and the Interior Department had been hacked. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Massive data breach followed ‘long history’ of failed IT systems at OPM

Pete Kasperowicz · June 16, 2015 2:50 pm

National Security Advisor Susan Rice on Friday met with General Fan Changlong, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of China, at the White House. (Getty File Photo)

White House: Second data hack might be bigger than first OPM breach

Nicole Duran · June 16, 2015 12:57 am

"This should concern every American who desires to see their personal information protected from the prying eyes of Big Brother Obama and it begs the question: What else don't we know when it comes to Obamacare?" said Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Obamacare warehouse raises privacy concerns

Paige Winfield Cunningham · June 15, 2015 7:58 pm

U.S. President Obama, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a press conference at the Great Hall of People on November 12, 2014 in Beijing, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images)

Obama urged to get tough with China

Nicole Duran · June 15, 2015 4:01 am

"The threat is growing so quickly both in sophistication and in magnitude that it's hard to keep up with. But we're not catching up right here," said House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas. (AP Photo)Â

Congress looks to protect grid from hackers

Charles Hoskinson · June 15, 2015 4:01 am

Network security company FireEye announced it had partnered with Visa to create new products that would make it easier for companies to find and fix potential data breaches.Â (AP Photo)

Can the FireEye/Visa Partnership save our data?

Katie Nelson · June 15, 2015 4:01 am

Hackers apparently affiliated with China breached OPM and gained access to 4 million federal employees' personnel records. (AP Photo)Â

Report: Military security clearance files hacked

David Brown · June 12, 2015 10:04 pm

South Korean President Park Geun-hyeÂ was supposed to visit President Obama in Washington next week. (AP Photo)

South Korea inks nuclear deal with U.S. but cancels trip

Susan Crabtree · June 12, 2015 1:23 pm

A participant looks at lines of code on a laptop on the first day of the 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) - Behind Enemy Lines computer hacker conference on December 27, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

National Security

Union: Social Security numbers for every federal employee stolen in hack

Kelly Cohen · June 11, 2015 8:54 pm

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen speaks at the American Bar Association Tax Section 2014 meeting, held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington on Friday, May 9th, 2014. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner file)

IRS promises new identity fraud safeguards before 2016 tax season

Joseph Lawler · June 11, 2015 8:47 pm

WH accuses GOP of playing politics with cybersecurity

National Security

WH accuses GOP of playing politics with cybersecurity

Susan Crabtree · June 11, 2015 7:04 pm