At least 500 million Yahoo users had their information stolen in 2014, the company said on Thursday — a year when half of American adults had their personal information exposed to hackers. Several more big names have been attacked since.

Money from MACRA, the first direct investment in health center IT since the days of HITECH, will go toward value-based care, data exchange, clinical decision support, patient engagement, and more.

With any luck, the modernization of the federal government’s information technology will develop as quickly as the bill to authorize it did.

Chris Lynch is easy to spot walking the Pentagon’s sprawling corridors: He’s the guy wearing a hoodie and sneakers amid all the crisp military uniforms. Instead of a placard with his name, the sign outside the office he leads says “Rebel Alliance.”

DISA wants to hear from industry about the existing COTS services that might meet the needs of the forthcoming National Background Investigation System.

New Verified Access API provides cryptographic guarantees about the identify and security state of Chrome OS devices

Without a doubt, technological advancements have been critical in getting information to commanders and troops to make clear decisions and execute missions. As the government writ large moves to more streamlined IT architectures, efforts within the intelligence community and the Defense Department seek to integrate and synchronize information while also hardening the defenses of information systems from outside – and inside – intrusions.

It was time to purge the hacker from the U.S. government’s computers.