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Category: GovCon Cybersecurity
Federal cybersecurity policy, procurement and the government contracting market.
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Expanding Exemptions: DoW Seeks Additional FOIA Exemption for CUI
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), enacted in 1967, allows the public to request federal government records. It is designed to require disclosure of US government records in the absence of any of its 9 exemptions for things like privacy, national security, and law enforcement. Now, the Department of War (DoW) has asked Congress for…
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AI policy circles targeted in China-linked phishing operation
A China-aligned cyber espionage group targeted U.S. artificial intelligence policy experts through phishing emails that impersonated prominent officials, economists and an employee of AI company Anthropic, according to research released Thursday by Proofpoint. The campaigns, which the cybersecurity company attributed to a group it calls TA419, sought access to cloud accounts held by people at…
Read the full story at CyberScoop.
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DISA takes second shot at expanding Leidos’ Enclave contract
The Defense Information Services Agency taking a second shot at adding the combatant commands' network migration effort to Enclave, the massive IT services contract held by Leidos. In a revised justification document posted Monday , DISA sought to address many of the complaints that General Dynamics IT raised in its protest of the agency's…
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The Bullseye on Your Back: What happens when federal work makes you a target?
How much could a stranger learn about you to hurt you? Take the 5-minute test.
Read the full story at Cybersecurity – Federal News Network.
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China-linked hackers posed as former US officials, Anthropic employee to target AI experts
Chinese hackers impersonated a former senior White House technology official, a former State Department economist and a senior Anthropic employee in attempts to break into the cloud accounts of artificial intelligence policy experts, according to findings from cybersecurity company Proofpoint released Thursday. The campaigns targeted researchers at think tanks, universities and law firms, using…
Read the full story at Nextgov/FCW – Cybersecurity.
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Modernizing federal OT means designing for disruption
The next step is ensuring policy, architecture, and funding decisions give OT the attention required to meet it.
Read the full story at Cybersecurity – Federal News Network.
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OpenAI reveals ‘novel’ encryption bypass used in distillation attack
OpenAI said it disrupted a “coordinated campaign” to distill and extract reasoning capabilities from its AI models, pointing the finger at a Chinese rival. On Wednesday, OpenAI said it first spotted low-level activity on July 1 that gradually increased until July 24 and 25, when it observed 16,000 prompts from 4,000 users that fit a…
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Will Orlowski Joins Koprince McCall Pottroff LLC as Associate Attorney and SmallGovCon Contributor!
We are pleased to announce that Will Orlowski has joined the firm and will also be a regular SmallGovCon contributor! Please check out Will’s first post discussing joint venture certification and timing for eligibility. Prior to joining the firm as an attorney, Will worked as a law clerk for the firm for over two years,…
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GAO Sides with VA, Joint Venture Must Be SDVOSB Eligible at Time of Award
Here at SmallGovCon, we spend a lot of time studying (and talking about) the various small business federal set-aside programs. As a result, a lot of our focus is dedicated to SBA’s regulations governing these programs—after all, it is the agency that was created by the Small Business Act to issue and implement precisely these…
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