State Dept. expects 8,000 parents to seek alerts about their children’s travel plans

Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector:  federal_agencies_legislative The U.S. State Department estimates that approximately 8,000 parents or legal guardians of minor children annually will take advantage of a department program that promises to send an alert if anyone submits an application for a U.S. passport on their child’s behalf. Homepage position: …

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DMI wins State Dept. IT management, security contract

Top Priority Sector:  cyber_security Image Caption:  U.S. Department of State Bethesda, MD-based IT solutions and business strategy consulting firm Digital Management, Inc., (DMI) was awarded a contract to provide and manage IT service desk and domestic desktop support to the U.S. Department of State (DOS). DOS Bureau of Information Resource…

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Utah: 750K more victims in health dept data breach

An additional 750,000 people had their personal information stolen by hackers, state health officials said Monday after discovering that the thieves downloaded thousands more files of data than authorities initially believed. View full post on Security News Headlines – Yahoo! News View full post on National Cyber Security

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Justice Dep’t Expected to OK Google-Motorola Deal

The U.S. Justice Department is poised to clear Google Inc.’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, giving Google a powerful armory of technology patents to deploy in the smartphone wars. However, antitrust enforcers in the U.S….

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