“This will happen again.” The message flashes across smartphone screens as power, transit, air traffic control systems, phones, and life support systems simultaneously shut down for one minute. Chaos ensues, and it is up to Robert DeNiro as fictional former president George Mullen to get to the bottom of this massive cyberattack. Netflix’s political thriller “Zero Day,” released Feb. 20, portrays the impact of a devastating critical infrastructure attack on the United States, the race to find...

The Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are firing and laying off thousands of government employees across multiple agencies. In 2024, the federal government employed approximately 116,000 IT workers, and that isn’t counting contractors and military and post office employees, Computerworld reports. These legions of federal tech workers are in the same boat as all federal employees, afloat on a sea of chaos and uncertainty. Several lawsuits have been filed...