Each day, the DorobekInsider team searches the Web for the stories most important to the federal community. We gather them so you don't have to.

• U.S. military scrutinizes leaks for risks to Afghans (NYT)
• WH proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity (Washington Post)
• The WikiLeaks Paradox (Slate)
• Google, CIA invest in 'future' of Web monitoring (Wired)
• Cyberwar is Hell (Newsweek)
• Could a single hacker crash a country's network? (HowStuffWorks)
• Open government is a mindset (O'Reilly Media)
• European Union starts project about economic effects of open government data (O'Reilly Media)
• 11 ways government can better spread its tech, open government efforts (GovFresh)
• Goldman Sachs bans swearing in emails (WSJ)
• President chooses Macbook Pro (Politico)
• Op-ed: NSA's Perfect Citizen program isn't perfect (Computerworld)
• Op-ed: Pentagon takes an incomplete on report on Chinese military (Washington Post)

And here's a list of what you made most popular yesterday:

1. Should the federal workforce spread out?
2. How to make telework really work
3. Automatic enrollment in TSP starts next week
4. New Federal Register website opens info to public
5. GAO launches mobile website
6. An unplugged vacation? Not for CFOs
7. How the ethical climate of an office can make a difference
8. Learn about life in a federal prison
9. Dorobek Must Reads - July 27
10. DorobekINSIDER: NASA cyber-security chief Jerry Davis to join Va

Erin Duggins, senior consultant, Hay Group
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So you took a few reams of paper and that box of pens from your office.

No big deal, right?

Well, looting office supplies is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ethical dilemmas in the workplace.

A new survey says the ethical environment at your office really makes a difference.

Erin Duggins is a senior consultant in the federal sector practice at the Hay Group.

She says you would be surprised how much a good ethical environment can impact your office.

Winslow Wheeler, director, Straus Military Reform Project, Center for Defense Information
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The Defense Department's five year goal of finding more than a $100 billion in efficiency savings has some industry insiders worried -- and others saying it doesn't go far enough.

Winslow Wheeler is the director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information.

He argues that the current levels of defense spending can't be maintained, and has come up with five steps to put the Defense Department on a sustainable path.

He says that, right now, its defense budget just isn't unsustainable.

Commerce Senior Advisor Marc Berejka talks with Federal Security Spotlight host Tom Temin
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Cybersecurity Update - Tune in weekdays at 30 minutes past the hour for the latest cybersecurity news on The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris (6-10 a.m.) and DorobekInsider with Chris Dorobek (3-5 p.m.). Listen live at FederalNewsRadio.com or on the radio at 1500 and 820 AM in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

• Commerce Secretary Gary Locke established the Internet Policy Task Force to make sure that innovation on the Internet can continue, and that commerce via the Internet to grow. Among the initiatives to protect innovation and growth is cybersecurity. One of the co-leaders of the Task Force is Commerce Senior Advisor Marc Berejka, a former telecommunications attorney and Microsoft executive. He's this week's guest on Federal Security Spotlight and we bring you a sneak peak of the show today. (Listen to the full show tomorrow at 10 a.m.)

• The Secret Service and Verizon teamed up to create the most comprehensive data breach investigation report to date. And the results were surprising. Despite an overall decline in data breaches from last year, the report says there was a large increase in the number of insider threats. The most common way cybercriminals were able to gain access into organizations? Stolen credentials. The study points out that most of the breaches would have been avoidable if security basics had been followed. It also says agencies are still sluggish in detecting and responding to cyber attacks.

Check out all of Federal News Radio's coverage of cybersecurity issues here.

WFED's Jason Miller
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The Office of Management and Budget is making a list your agency doesn't want to be on.

OMB wants to know which of your agency's technology projects are floundering.

By the end of August, OMB will release a list of no more than 30 projects that are among the worst performing across government.

Federal News Radio's Jason Miller joins had details of yet another effort to fix widespread problems with technology projects.

(Read the full story.)

Evan Offstein, Frostburg State University and Jason Morwick, Cisco
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We talk about teleworking a lot, but it seems there's a big difference between discussing it and actually putting a system in place that will work for feds.

According to the most recent federal employee survey by the Office of Personnel Management, only 10 percent of feds telework at least one day a week, and 12 percent said that they aren't even interested in telework.

But the survey found that 23 percent of feds say they aren't allowed to telework, and 7 percent said they don't telework because technical issues prevent them from doing so.

So, we decided to speak with a couple of different telework experts in order to sort out some issues.

Each day, the DorobekInsider team searches the Web for the stories most important to the federal community. We gather them so you don't have to.

• Congress clears war funding (Politico)
• Alternate QDR: Boost equipment modernization, force size (Defense News)
• Update: Where Recovery Act funds are now (Recovery.gov)
• GAO launches mobile website (GAO)
• Survey tells two tales about feds' social media use (FCW)
• Solar UAV lands after record 2 weeks aloft (Defense News)
• NASCIO releases 2010 State CIO Survey (NASCIO)
• Two extremely well-designed wall clocks (CrunchGear)
• In search of the green cookout (WSJ)

And here's a list of what you made most popular yesterday:

1. Automatic enrollment in TSP starts next week
2. New Federal Register website opens info to public
3. An unplugged vacation? Not for CFOs
4. DorobekINSIDER: NASA cyber-security chief Jerry Davis to join VA
5. Should the federal workforce spread out?
6. Poll: Americans want better, not smaller, government
7. Fake flirty cyber analyst shows social network risks
8. Dorobek Must Reads - July 26
9. Poll: Most Americans don't trust federal government
10. Cyber 'capture the flag' contest will premiere at DefCon

Tom Shoop, editor in chief, Government Executive
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Is Washington too much of a company town? Should the federal workforce be scattered around the country? And would this really help?

The Washington Post's Alec MacGillis thinks so. But this isn't the first time this sentiment has been expressed.

"It's just one of those things that seems to come up every few years, and the case never seems all that entirely strong to me," Tom Shoop, editor in chief at Government Executive said. "So put me in the category of not being convinced! "

Mike Causey, Senior Correspondent, Federal News Radio
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What's life like in a federal prison for the employees?

Only a handful of people know.

Senior correspondent Mike Causey says he'll shed some light on the issue tomorrow on Your Turn.

(Don't forget to listen to the whole show tomorrow, starting at 10 a.m.)

Chris Hadnagy, Mati Aharoni and James O'Gorman, social-engineer.org
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Cybersecurity Update - Tune in weekdays at 30 minutes past the hour for the latest cybersecurity news on The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris (6-10 a.m.) and DorobekInsider with Chris Dorobek (3-5 p.m.). Listen live at FederalNewsRadio.com or on the radio at 1500 and 820 AM in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

• The biggest threat to cybersecurity isn't faulty software or old computers. It's people. It's called 'social engineering' and the founders of the website www.social-engineer.org have organized a contest for this year's DefCon to crowdsource ideas. Chris Hadnagy, Mati Aharoni and James O'Gorman are with the site and explain how it will work. (Click on the audio above to hear our interview with them.)

• What do healthcare professionals worry about the most? More than 60 percent say it's electronic medical records. That from a new survey by database management firm Embarcadero Technologies. The survey of more than 3,000 IT professionals found that 85 percent are either working on an electronic medical records project or plan to in the next 18 months. eweek.com reports that the reason for the jump in e-health projects has to do with the federal government. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has set aside more than $19 billion for e-health initiatives.

Check out all of Federal News Radio's coverage of cybersecurity issues here.