Top 10 most popular stories in 2010

Here are the top ten Federal News Radio stories people clicked on the most this year:

10. Bill would give DHS emergency cyber powers
The act would give the federal government the power to take over civilian networks’ security if there is an “imminent cyber threat.”

9. Two-year pay freeze proposed for feds
Earlier in 2010, President Obama had proposed a 1.4 percent raise for federal employees. By November, the announcement was to freeze federal civilian pay through 2012.

8. Marine Corps considering new class of cyber warriors
Fighters on the computerized front lines? It may be necessary in cyber warfare.

7. Cool Jobs in Government (photo slideshow)
From the government’s space forecaster to the fine arts manager to a mail deliverer on the Appalachian trails, Federal News Radio highlighted some of the more unorthodox federal jobs.

6. Hacker arrested after cracking Federal Reserve
Malaysian resident Lin Mun Poo had hacked into a Fed computer network containing more than 400,000 credit and debit card numbers.

5. Cyber Storm III uses Internet to attack itself
The Department of Homeland Security program was a run-through to test the limits of a national response to a cyber attack.

4. SIGIR: Defense can’t account for $8.7 billion
DoD couldn’t account for $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion in development funds for reconstruction in Iraq, an Inspector General report found.

3. DHS delivers job offers on pizza boxes (photo slideshow)
You want pepperoni with that job application? The Department of Homeland Security takes a creative approach to recruitment.

2. Bill calls for two weeks of federal furlough
The bill would make it mandatory to take ten unpaid days off.

1. DFAS employees fired after security review
If you can’t pay your bills, you can’t keep your job. That’s what happened to 39 employees at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

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