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Republican Senators Question the Security of Collecting Health Information from Airline Passengers (Alexandra Kelley, Nextgov)

A group of Senators Tuesday questioned the security of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s continued order to collect personal data from airline...

U.S. Blacklists NSO Group and 3 Others for Selling Spyware, Hacking Tools (Mariam Baksh, Nextgov)

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security banned U.S. persons from dealing with four companies—including Israel’s NSO Group—that they say acted against national security...

2020 Census May Have Missed More Than 1.6M Residents (Kate Elizabeth Queram, Nextgov)

The 2020 census may have undercounted the U.S. population by more than 1.6 million people, drastically affecting the distribution of federal funding across the...

What Google’s New Cloud Security Authorizations Mean for Its Government Customers (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

Google achieved two new public-sector authorizations that insiders say will prove instrumental in their work helping the government modernize its information technology, security and...

CISA Orders Agencies to Patch Hundreds of Vulnerabilities Under Attack (Mariam Baksh, Nextgov)

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is pursuing a new strategy to guide agencies’ management of vulnerabilities with a binding operational directive that prioritizes their patching operations. “With...

How to Help Mars Robots With Their Missions (John Breeden II, Nextgov)

This weekend I spent quite a bit of time helping Mars rovers learn how to avoid various mission-killing traps like the large rock fields...

Building a Cloud-Savvy Workforce May Mean Rethinking Degree Requirements (Patience Wait, Nextgov)

The challenge of finding qualified IT professionals to work for the federal government is well known. Most often the difficulty is attributed to lower...

You Know How to Identify Phishing Emails (Rick Wash, Nextgov)

An employee at MacEwan University got an email in 2017 from someone claiming to be a construction contractor asking to change the account number where almost...

North Korean Uranium Mining Picked Up From 2017 to 2020 (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Activity at North Korea’s Pyongsan uranium mine appears to have increased from 2017 to 2020, though its output still lags the country’s uranium processing...

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