Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fabricating background checks can lead to national security nightmares, according to experts. A federal contractor has now ...

The government’s security clearance process can help protect classified information. But due to concerns with timeliness, IT security, and more, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) added this ...

One U.S. defense contractor set up a way to remotely access an office computer. Another forwarded 37 sensitive but unclassified work emails to a personal account. A third sent three emails with ...

A federal contractor tasked with performing background checks on Department of Defense employees seeking high-level security clearances copped to submitting reams of bogus reports when she claimed to ...