Tag: Watchdog

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, listens during a Senate Armed Services Committee on July 21, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Feds object to more privacy protections

Rudy Takala · September 16, 2015 6:41 pm

Cable/DSLR routers on a shelf.

Foreign governments hacked with ‘ultimate cybercrime tool’

Rudy Takala · September 16, 2015 3:23 pm

Ã¢â¬ÅThis is, to me, the kind of matter that the National Counterintelligence and Security Center should respond to quickly, because it affects a debate coming up,Ã¢â¬ï¿½ Wyden said. (AP file)

Wyden weighs subpoena over OPM breach

Rudy Takala · September 16, 2015 3:21 pm

An assistant U.S. attorney transmitted "sensitive but unclassified" data to a personal account. (iStock)

Justice Dept. watchdog faults prosecutor for mishandling sensitive data

Sarah Bedford · September 16, 2015 3:05 pm

Congressman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks with the Washington Examiner, in his office, on Capitol Hill, Washington, Thursday, September 10, 2015. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Jim Jordan: ‘It’s tough to get information from the Obama administration’

Sarah Bedford · September 16, 2015 4:01 am

Senate to hold hearing on digital due process rights

Rudy Takala · September 15, 2015 11:58 pm

Bryan Pagliano, a former State Department employee who helped set up and maintain a private email server used by Hillary Rodham Clinton, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, to give his deposition to a House panel on the Benghazi investigation. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

Senators demand interview with top State Dept. tech official

Sarah Bedford · September 15, 2015 10:55 pm

Bryan Pagliano, center, a former State Department employee who helped set up and maintain a private email server used by Hillary Rodham Clinton, departs Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, to give his deposition to a House panel on the Benghazi investigation. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Watchdog calls for probe of payments to Clinton IT staffer

Sarah Bedford · September 15, 2015 9:00 pm

An official with the Clinton Foundation reached out to Hillary Clinton's chief of staff and other top aides in June 2012 to ask if the U.S. government would "have any concerns" about Bill Clinton getting paid to speak to the Iranian advocacy group.Â (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)

Bill Clinton asked State Dept. about paid speech to Iranian group

Sarah Bedford · September 15, 2015 8:20 pm

As a result of the potential for profit, EuroPol said, cybercriminals are becoming more aggressive. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Feds seek a cyberattack forecaster

Rudy Takala · September 15, 2015 6:57 pm

ICE and the Secret Service, which fall under the Department of Homeland Security, have website vulnerabilities that leave employees open to common cyberattacks. (AP file)

Report: Secret Service, ICE vulnerable to ‘clickjacking’

Rudy Takala · September 15, 2015 6:45 pm

The hacks reportedly took place just as the country was trying to conduct elections.Â (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

National Security

California hackers attack Kremlin, Putin’s website

Rudy Takala · September 15, 2015 3:58 pm