Tag: Cybersecurity

The Dogecoin currency was targeted by online bank robbers. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Dogecoin seller hacked, 21 million coins lost in heist

Ashe Schow · December 27, 2013 5:00 am

The U.S. is the juiciest target for hackers hunting credit card information. And experts say incidents like the recent data theft at Target's stores will get worse before they get better. (AP/Phil Coale)

Weak US card security made Target a juicy target

Jonathan Fahey · December 23, 2013 5:00 am

Officials launched healthcare.gov despite a warning from a top cybersecurity official that it wasn't ready, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee revealed Friday.ÃÂ (AP Image)

Top cybersecurity official warned of high vulnerabilities with healthcare.gov before website launch

Kelly Cohen · December 20, 2013 5:00 am

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, released transcripts revealing two major security risks with healthcare.gov. (AP Photo)

Administration official points to new security issues with healthcare.gov

Brian Hughes · December 20, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - This June 6, 2013 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The case of a Baltimore purse-snatcher who got nabbed after crank-calling his victim in 1976 laid the legal groundwork for today's worldwide government surveillance of telephone records in the name of protecting the U.S. from terrorists. The NSA has argued that people forfeit privacy rights when they voluntarily give their phone numbers and Internet IDs to businesses. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

National Security

Obama meets with NSA review task force

Meghashyam Mali · December 18, 2013 5:00 am

An inspector general has questioned the competence of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights, which oversees safeguards for electronic protected health information. (Thinkstock)

New security risks found concerning HIPAA

Kelly Cohen · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander, from left, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence General Counsel Robert Litt, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

National Security

White House to keep NSA, cyber oversight together

Associated Press · December 13, 2013 10:30 pm

Personal information entered into healthcare.gov may still be at the mercy of hackers, according to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

Darrell Issa: HHS obstruction means healthcare.gov still vulnerable to hackers

Ashe Schow · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

House warns: Obamacare website ‘open to hackers, other online criminals’

Paul Bedard · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

Nasdaq security chief to head new cybersecurity unit

National Security

Nasdaq security chief to head new cybersecurity unit

Washington Examiner · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

New concerns: IRS is not protecting Obamacare info from hackers

New concerns: IRS is not protecting Obamacare info from hackers

Paul Bedard · December 9, 2013 5:00 am

Security gaps draw U.S. scrutiny of border sewage plant

National Security

Security gaps draw U.S. scrutiny of border sewage plant

Washington Examiner · December 3, 2013 5:00 am