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More than 1,000 Government Domain Names Terminated

The government transparency website MuckRock has posted a list of all “.gov” domain names that have been terminated (including the reasons for termination) within the last ten years. The list was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the General Services Administration. Terminated .gov Domain Names. Muckrock. The Dot-Gov Rejects: The 1,000 […]

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GPO: Designer of Government Websites

The Government Publishing Office announced yesterday that it has designed the Department of Commerce’s new Web site. GPO Designs New Department Of Commerce Website. GPO News Release (Apr 8, 2015). GPO designer Jon Raedeke collaborated with Commerce’s Chief Information Officer’s team on this project. GPO was responsible for designing the user-friendly, mobile-optimized Web site that […]

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Watch out for fake government websites

Brian Krebs reports: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning that individuals sympathetic to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (ISIS) are mass-defacing Websites using known vulnerabilities in WordPress. The FBI also issued an alert advising that criminals are hosting fraudulent government Web sites in a bid to collect personal and financial information […]

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GAO report on Library of Congress

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report last week that criticized management of information technology at the Library of Congress. Strong Leadership Needed to Address Serious Information Technology Management Weaknesses, U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO–15–315 (Mar 31, 2015). Here is a roundup of some of the news and commentary about the report: America’s ‘national […]

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Official New FCC Net Neutrality Rules To Be Published Soon

Update: published! Have you been wondering where the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules are? News reports this week say that The FCC sent its net neutrality rules to the Federal Register, but publishing schedules mean that it will be “a number of days” before they appear. FCC sends net neutrality rules to Federal Register, sets stage […]

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