The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) recently launched the Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge 2, which encourages solvers to develop innovative methods for utilizing crowdsourced information to create global issue forecasts. […]

The Department of Justice announced May 3 that it, in partnership with German authorities, has charged three German nationals with operating Wall Street Market (WSM), “which was one of the world’s largest dark web marketplaces that allowed vendors to sell a wide variety of contraband,” including malware. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is in the process of creating a plan for developing standards and tools to support artificial technologies and are currently seeking information on helping NIST “understand the current state, plans, challenges, and opportunities regarding the development and availability of AI technical standards.” […]

Today the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) announced that Martha Suárez as its new president. Suárez most recently served as general director of The National Spectrum Agency. […]

Efforts to secure data under regulations like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation have not improved protections, a Varonis report indicates. Varonis found an uptick in sensitive data availability to personnel this year versus last, after analyzing 54 billion files. The report found that 53 percent of companies have over 1,000 sensitive files open […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is soliciting submissions for construction manufacturing that can be done autonomously. The proposed technology should be able to construct barracks, houses, and other buildings, along with mobility and counter-mobility tools like bridges, culverts, and anti-vehicle obstacles. […]

Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, weighed in on blockchain technology in an op-ed in The Hill on April 22, making the case for his new legislation, the Token Taxonomy Act. […]

Kevin Bankston is leaving New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) to become director of privacy policy at Facebook, where he will focus on “development privacy-protective tools” and help shape privacy policy for emerging technologies. […]

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an agency of the United Nations, today announced the observance by more than 170 countries of “Girls in ICT Day,” which aims to help bridge the digital divide in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector.  […]

The Asia-Pacific region is increasingly falling victim to cyberattacks, supplanting the North American region for most-attacked status, according to an annual report by Trustwave. […]

Grant Seiffert is the Wireless Infrastructure Association’s (WIA) new VP of workforce development and executive director of the Telecommunications Industry Registered Apprenticeship Program, WIA announced on April 23. […]

SonicWall identified an uptick in cyberattacks with PDF origins this year, according to a report it published last week. The network security company identified over 74,000 new PDF-based attacks last year, “a number that has already surpassed in the first quarter of 2019 with more than 173,000 new variants detected.” In March alone, the company […]

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) appointed Nellwyn Thomas as its new chief technology officer (CTO) – making Thomas the first woman to serve in the position – and Kat Atwater as deputy CTO. This is also the first time that all of the DNC tech team’s senior leadership positions are held by women. Thomas was […]

After cutting their social media teeth on Twitter, where they have an impressive 2.58 million followers, the CIA announced it will launch an Instagram account. […]

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced the appointment of 30 experts to serve on the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC) on April 18. […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has made two notable leadership changes recently. […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that its Science and Technology Directorate’s web-based Hurricane Evacuation (HURREVAC) system was used on a larger scale during the 2018 hurricane season than in its 2017 debut, and is looking to become fully operational for the 2019 season. HURREVAC consolidates forecast and planning data to provide emergency […]

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced three new leadership promotions on April 17. […]

Starting next week, David Forscey will join think tank Aspen Cybersecurity Group as its new managing director. […]

Lynne Weil is leaving Capitol Hill to join Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). […]

The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA), an industry group which advocates for laws to promote “more efficient and effective spectrum utilization,” announced April 16 that Cisco Systems, Swarm Technologies, and UTStarcom have joined the Alliance. […]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and FICO released their Q1 Cyber Risk Assessment Report, which found that the “level of cyber risk to the U.S. business community is holding steady.” […]

Vector Launch, Virgin Orbit, and VOX Space are the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) qualifying competitors for the Launch Challenge, which aims to enable the military to launch on-demand small payloads into space. DARPA awarded $400,000 to each competitor that completed the qualification phase, and now the competitors will attempt to launch to low-Earth […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a Malware Analysis Report (MAR) on Wednesday warning industry about cyberattacks from the Lazarus Group, which is widely believed to be backed by the North Korean government. […]

The American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) announced today that Dave Wennergren, will assume the role of ACT-IAC CEO on May 13. […]

CenturyLink announced that NASA awarded the company a task order on the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract, marking the first such task order on the EIS contract. […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will host its second annual Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) summit in Detroit, July 15–17. ERI – a five-year, upwards of $1.5 billion investment to develop a specialized, secure, and automated electronics industry – has created collaborations among the defense industrial base, private electronics sectors, and academic researchers. DARPA […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) gave a 12-month provisional authorization to the Project Host Federal Private Cloud (PJHFPC) on April 1. PJHFPC is a platform as a service private cloud that hosts Impact Level 5 (IL5) controlled unclassified information data, and it has systems and services that manage access control, authentication, auditing, monitoring, scanning, […]

As Tax Day approaches, Proofpoint called attention to an increase in tax-related malware and phishing campaigns in a blog post on Wednesday. […]

In a blog post Thursday, Trustwave detailed a new sextortion scam making the rounds. […]