SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Oct. 28, 2015 – The Center for Digital Government announced the winners of its fifth-annual Cybersecurity Leadership and Innovation Awards at the FOCUS 15 Security Conference yesterday in Las Vegas.
This annual awards program, underwritten by Intel Security, recognizes the commitment, dedication, hard work and contributions of...
Jason Mazzone is the Lynn H. Murray Faculty Scholar in Law and co-director of the Program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He spoke with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s influence on...
Consumers are reporting another government imposter scam to steal money. This time the scammers are pretending to be calling from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
According to reports, callers are telling people they’ve been selected to receive a $14,000 grant from NIH. To get it, though, callers tell...
AccuWeather Global Weather Center - January 19, 2016 - AccuWeather reports a major winter storm will hit the eastern United States with the potential for heavy snow to impact more than 50 million people at the end of the week.
Areas from Charleston, West Virginia, and Roanoke, Virginia, to Washington,...
You’ve heard about Newton’s laws regarding bodies at rest and bodies in motion. A 21st century corollary is to protect sensitive information when it’s at rest on your network and implement effective safeguards when it’s in motion – for example, when a customer transfers confidential data from their computer...
U.S. Representative Robin Kelly and Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch inviting her to visit Chicago as part of the investigation she has launched into the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) in the wake of Laquan McDonald’s murder by...
According to a lawsuit just filed by the FTC, DeVry University’s ads conveyed to consumers that 90% of its graduates actively seeking employment landed new jobs in their field of study within six months of graduation. You can say this about DeVry: The company has been remarkably consistent in...
The idea of universal basic income – that is, Uncle Sam paying everyone $10,000 per year – has come back in vogue among economists and policymakers. Robert Bruno is a professor of labor and employment relations at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois and the director of...
The Federal Trade Commission has charged the operators of a fake prize scheme with mailing phony prize notifications that tricked people into thinking they had won $1 million or more if they paid a $25 fee to collect the prize. Those who paid received nothing.
“These defendants relied on a...
A new competition launched today will award a $100 million grant to a single proposal designed to help solve a critical problem affecting people, places, or the planet. The Foundation’s competition, called 100&Change, is open to organizations working in any field of endeavor anywhere. Applicants must identify both the...
