SAN FRANCISCO - Security experts warned on Monday of a new insidious e-mail scam that features false information about a bomb explosion in the recipient's hometown and leads to a malicious Web site. The subject lines include "Take Care!" and "Are you and your friends in good health?" The e-mail includes a link to what
SANTA CLARA - WhiteHat Security, a provider of website security solutions, has announced the launch of its global partner program that will introduce two levels of partnership in order to deliver the WhiteHat Sentinel product family to the customers of consultants, resellers and managed security service providers. The WhiteHat Security partner program gives organizations a
SAN JOSE - Cisco Systems has announced the Unified Computing System, which the networking vendor sees as the future of the datacenter and how it will evolve through virtualization and cloud computing. According to Cisco, the Unified Computing System (UCS), which it has worked on with several industry partners (including VMware), will change business models
SAN JOSE - IDC's special report, "Data Protection in United States SMBs: Opportunity and Analysis," has noted that Small to Medium-Sized businesses are increasingly adopting technologies like replication or disk-to-disk-to-tape backup that have only been previously seen in enterprise datacenters. "Mid-sized businesses are increasingly facing some of the same challenges that larger firms face and
SAN JOSE - Malware exploits moved at unprecedented speed and volume this past year but 2009 may bring increasing cooperation among security vendors and law enforcement agencies to bring down criminal enterprises, according to the annual Trend Micro Threat Roundup & 2009 Forecast. While malware authors have always moved quickly, releasing code as soon as
LANSING - Spending for $873 million of the state's transportation federal stimulus funds, which will support more than 130 projects around the state, which could create 25,000 news jobs, cleared the House overwhelmingly Wednesday. Projects include repair and reconstruction of I-475 in Flint, I-94 in Ann Arbor, I-196 in Grand Rapids, as well as reconstruction
LANSING - With the same cast returning for a repeat performance before the House Judiciary Committee that pushed the issue on both sides last session, the panel approved a package that would essentially erase the state's product liability immunity law and put prescription drugs under consumer protection laws. As they have in prior sessions, advocates
LANSING - The Michigan Strategic Fund board Wednesday approved a $6.9 million grant to Thomas Township to make public infrastructure improvements needed for the expansion of the Hemlock Semiconductor Group's solar cell manufacturing facility, which could create up to 300 jobs over the next two years. Hemlock Semiconductor is a joint venture of Dow Corning
ROCHESTER HILLS �?? While the long term future for solar energy is bright, short term the global economic meltdown has even caught up with Energy Conversion Devices, which said Monday it will lay off 70 people at its solar panel production plat at the older of its two Auburn Hills factories. Energy Conversion also said
ROCHESTER HILLS - Energy Conversion Devices' shares plummeted 23.2 percent in trading on Tuesday, after the solar-equipment maker warned investors that its third-quarter earnings would fall short of earlier projections amid a weakening economic environment. The company, which issued its warning after the markets closed on Monday, announced that it would cut 70 positions, issue