Karl Teel, publisher, Recreation News
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It looks like a nice weekend to get out to the big folk festival that's going on down on the Chesapeake.

Like the arts? There's a big Arts & Humanities Weekend going on in one of the oldest towns in the nation out in West Virginia.

Recreation News publisher Karl Teel gives us the scoop.

Tim McManus, Vice President for Education and Outreach, Partnership for Public Service
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As the DorobekInsider has been reporting, the government continues to have a difficult time generating greater trust from the public.

A new poll that the Center For American Progress just put out on what Americans want from government generally seems to make a case for that. The poll shows that 33 percent say they have "some" confidence, while 31 percent say "no, not at all."

Tim McManus is the Vice President of Education and Outreach for the Partnership for Public Service.

Mark Koltz, Program Manager, Northrop Grumman Information Technology
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Back in June, DorobekInsider spoke to Mark Koltz of Northrop Grumman just before he set off from Oregon on his bike trip across the country.

The government contractor decided to make the trek for a good cause - he's raising money for lung cancer.

Just to give you a few data points: he has biked for 36 days with about 11 more to go; he has biked nearly 3,000 miles with about 783 to go.

And he has only had one flat tire.

Wade Baker, the Director of Risk Intelligence, Verizon
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So, just how secure are Verizon's electronic records?

The 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, based on a first-of-its kind collaboration with the U.S. Secret Service, has found that while the overall number of breaches declined from 2008, about 85 percent of breaches could have been avoided if basic security measures had been followed.

The study, released Wednesday, analyzed more than 900 breaches involving more than 900 million compromised records. The findings showed that the electronic breaches from 2009 involved more insider threats, a greater use of social engineering and the continuing involvement of organized criminal groups.

Wade Baker, Director of Risk Intelligence, Verizon
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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.

• You see reports about data breaches all the time -- but do you really know what data has been compromised? Verizon does, and they compile all that data - more than 900 million breaches - into their annual Data Breaches Investigation Report. And this year for the first time, they have teamed up with the Secret Service. Wade Baker is the Director of Risk Intelligence at Verizon. He says the collaboration with the Secret Service is the first of it's kind. You can hear the report by clicking on the audio link at the top of the page.

• Are we really in a 'cyberwar' with China? The retired head of the CIA, Michael Hayden, is adding his voice to an effort by the Obama administration to downplay such talk. The Financial Times reports on a speech Hayden made yesterday on the topic. He was one of those appearing at the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Instead of describing the situation as 'war,' Hayden suggested the U.S. needs to listen to the advice his father gave him as a nine-year-old: to "Quit whining, act like a man and defend yourself."

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

WFED's Jason Miller
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The Justice Department has joined a false claims lawsuit against Oracle Corporation.

Justice joins an existing complaint that alleges the software giant knowingly overcharged the government under the General Services Administration's schedule contracts.

Some experts believe the lawsuit is a message to all contractors.

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.

• What should President Obama read? (Slate)
• GSA schedules: Are agencies paying too much? (Federal Computer Week)
• What is Gov 2.0? (CBSNews.com)
• Craigslist creator tries to bring transparency initiative out of the shadows (NextGov.com)
• Peter Orszag leaves his mark (Politico)
• Budget office nominee received huge Citigroup bonus (Slate and the Washington Times)
• Industry wants changes in DoD contract reforms (Defense News)
• Pentagon returns Wikileaks suspect to U.S. (Politico)
• Prosecutor: Military secrets sold to fund Maui home (MSNBC)
• Government departments spend £6m on search engines (BBC)
• Forecasters expect world population to reach 7 billion next year (Slate)
• We could run out of Internet addresses in a year (Poynter Online)
• GSA SLAMs It (WFED)
• ThinkUp: New ideas (ThinkUp)
• CVC staffers, Rouse speak out after chief's ouster (Roll Call)
• Ex-CIA chief downplays claims of China 'cyberwar' (The Financial Times)

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

1. How to make telework really work
2. How the ethical climate of an office can make a difference
3. Change your mindset to successfully move into cloud
4. 5 steps DoD can follow to save money
5. Automatic enrollment in TSP starts next week
6. Stolen credentials most common way cyber criminals gain access
7. Dorobek Must Reads - July 28
8. Should the federal workforce spread out?
9. GAO launches mobile website
10. OMB to create list for struggling IT projects

WFED's Max Cacas
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Peter Orszag leaves the White House this Friday for the last time as director of the Office of Management and Budget.

During his farewell speech Wednesday, Orszag touted the administration's gains.

Orszag will now head to the Council on Foreign Relations.

Federal News Radio's Max Cacas looks back on the last 18 months driving the federal government.

WFED's Jason Miller
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An agency is reeling from a GAO sting.

The congressional watchdog says the State Department's passport issuance program continues to be vulnerable to fraud.

So, lawmakers are introducing legislation to close these continuing gaps.

Federal News Radio's Jason Miller has details on what GAO found and how lawmakers want these problems fixed.

Greg Wilshusen, Director of Information Security Issues, GAO
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Social collaboration sites, blogs, and wikis are helping most agencies boost public participation and innovation.

But what are Web 2.0 tools doing on the privacy and security front?

In a recently issued report, the Government Accountability Office says agencies are facing some challenges when it comes to controlling the information coming out of social networking sites.

Sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are currently in place for almost every federal agency.

After analyzing federal policies and reports, and interviewing officials at selected federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security and the General Services Administration, the GAO found that these technologies can actually increase the risk of improper management and exposure of government records and sensitive information.