Tim Starks Archives | FedScoop https://fedscoop.com/author/tim-starks/ FedScoop delivers up-to-the-minute breaking government tech news and is the government IT community's platform for education and collaboration through news, events, radio and TV. FedScoop engages top leaders from the White House, federal agencies, academia and the tech industry both online and in person to discuss ways technology can improve government, and to exchange best practices and identify how to achieve common goals. Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:07:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://fedscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/01/cropped-fs_favicon-3.png?w=32 Tim Starks Archives | FedScoop https://fedscoop.com/author/tim-starks/ 32 32 CISA emergency directive tells agencies to fix credentials after Microsoft breach https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-emergency-directive-tells-agencies-to-fix-credentials-after-microsoft-breach/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:43:16 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/?p=77153 Scoop News Group first reported on the existence of the directive, which calls the pilfered emails “a grave and unacceptable risk to agencies."

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]]> 77153 Federal government affected by Russian breach of Microsoft https://cyberscoop.com/federal-government-russian-breach-microsoft/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 20:14:06 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/?p=77007 U.S. cybersecurity officials issued an emergency directive this week to address a breach by Russian operatives of Microsoft first disclosed in January.

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]]> 77007 FBI seeks to balance risks, rewards of artificial intelligence https://cyberscoop.com/fbi-seeks-to-balance-risks-rewards-of-artificial-intelligence/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:04:43 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/?p=76990 The agency sees ways that AI could help protect cyber networks, but also ways it could be an ethical quagmire or a tool for enemies of the United States.

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]]> 76990 DHS establishes its own bug bounty program, offering outsiders $500 to $5K for discovering flaws https://www.cyberscoop.com/hack-dhs-alejandro-mayorkas-bug-bounty/ https://www.cyberscoop.com/hack-dhs-alejandro-mayorkas-bug-bounty/#respond Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:14:25 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/?p=45747 DHS follows in the footsteps of bug bounty initiatives for federal agencies that began in 2016.

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