While the Office of Personnel Management’s system for submitting federal background checks is temporarily offline for security upgrades, the office announced that in the meantime government employees ...

A Defense Department Web system that tracks employee background investigations will be offline for an unspecified amount of time, while officials fix security holes in a civilian agency database ...

After identifying a vulnerability in its background check processing platform, the Office of Personnel Management has suspended operations of the system temporarily to improve its security. Electronic ...

Potential government employees and contractors will not be able to fill out their background questionnaires online for up to six weeks, the Office of Personnel Management announced on Monday. The ...

Do you need to get a security clearance for your new job? Don't hold your breath. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced it is temporarily suspending its Electronic Questionnaires for ...

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) had known since 2012 about security flaws in its online submission system, roughly three years before the agency finally shut down the system to repair it.

With the reopening of e-QIP, the security clearance process begins again and contractors are breathing a sigh of relief. The news that the e-QIP system for background checks came back online this week ...

Virginia’s Senate delegation wants answers about the shutdown of an Office of Personnel Management system for handling security clearances. A significant number of constituents of Democratic Sens. Tim ...

Julian Kimble is an audience editor for CDW’s family of technology websites. In the wake of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) breach, federal agencies were forced to place their IT ...

The fallout from the massive breach continues. — -- Three weeks after U.S. authorities determined foreign hackers may have stolen sensitive government records tied to tens of millions of people, ...

Even as the administration works to address the two OPM data breaches affecting upwards of 18 million current and former federal, contractor and military personnel, we now face the potentially broad ...

Weeks after first disclosing massive breaches, OPM has shuttered a vital background check system in the face of newly discovered vulnerabilities. (Image: edited screen capture / OPM) Nearly a month ...