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Schmidt to be named cybercoordinator

Cybercoordinator to be named, FBI investigating Citigroup hack

Tags: Cybersecurity Update , cybersecurity , Microsoft , Citigroup , Howard Schmidt

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Contractor Employees in the Intel World

Tags: Michael Hayden , Michael Chertoff , Central Intelligence Agency , CIA , Homeland Security Department , Department of Homeland Security , DHS

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Internet fraud losses doubled last year

Google near certain to close China site

Tags: Cybersecurity Update , cybersecurity , Google

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Iraq Comes to Washington

There are some Iraqi Police and Military officials in town. They are here for training with the FBI and U.S. agencies and military officials. U.S. Army sources say the FBI training is designed to teach Iraqi police forensics skills, evidentiary proceedings and better police skills. Iraqi military officials are also here for training and will be meeting with U.S. military officials and other unnamed U.S. agencies. Iraq is preparing for the departing of U.S troops in 2011 and need to improve police and military capabilities.

Tags: Pentagon and Beyond , Pentagon , J.J. Green , Army , Iraq

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Holder decided on Christmas Day terror suspect

Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday he made the decision to charge the Christmas Day terror suspect in civilian court rather than the military system, with no objection from all the other relevant departments of the government. According to the Associated Press, the attorney general wrote in a letter to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell that the FBI told its partners in the intelligence community on Christmas Day and again the next day that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab would be charged criminally.

Tags: technology , Pentagon , Attorney General ,

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On the run: FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List turns 60

This week on Fed Talk, host Debra Roth is joined by Special Agents Eric Ives and Ron Nolan of the Violent Crimes/Major Offenders Unit of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division. They will discuss the history of the Top Ten List, how the list works, and how modern technology has helped bring the list into the 21st Century.

Tags: homeland security , Pay & Benefits , technology , Most Wanted List , Eric Ives , Ron Nolan

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FBI's case management project remains on shaky ground

Latest IG report finds cost, schedule and performance of Sentinel has slipped again. FBI had to delay new capabilities under Phase 2. Bureau says Sentinel should be fully implemented by September 2010.

Tags: contracting , technology , Justice , Lockheed Martin , Sentinel , Case management system

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The tug-of-war between security and privacy

Privacy advocates often find themselves at odds with those who favor stepped up cybersecurity. But are the two camps destined to be at odds with each other always? A conference now underway is examining the tug of war between the two sides.

Tags: technology , privacy , CFP , Stewart Baker , Bruce Schnier , Valerie Caproni ,

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With Schmidt in place, who's his deputy?

Sources tell FederalNewsRadio that a leading candidate is a staff member on the Senate Intelligence Committee. In the meantime, former White House cybersecurity lead Hathaway and other industry experts offer the new cyber coordinator some advice about priorities and challenges.

Tags: technology , management , Howard Schmidt , James Langevin , Sameer Bhalotra , White House , Senate Select Committee on Intelligence , DHS , DoD , NSA , ODNI , Melissa Hathaway , Mischel Kwon , Liesyl Franz , TechAmerica , RSA , Hathaway Global Strategies , information sharing

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Agencies begin to alter approach to IT system development

Several departments are starting to understand that buying and creating technology systems can be done in small, iterative steps. OMB's push for agile development seems to be taking hold across the government.

Tags: technology , agile development , DoD , OMB , Robert White , rob vietmeyer , tyler bond , USDA , IT reform , AFFIRM , TechStat , Jason Miller

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