BOSTON - Spam is on the increase again, and Sophos' latest spam trends report shows that only one in 28 e-mails can be considered legitimate. The rest are like the Vikings in that classic Monty Python skit: Spam, spam, spam. While there have been increases and decreases over the last couple of years, with spam
SAN JOSE, Ca. - Cyber-criminals have become organized and bare more than a passing resemblance to legitimate business today, according to Finjan's latest trends report from its Malicious Code Research Center. The report looked at the trend of cyber-crime during the second quarter of 2008, and it looks like cyber-criminals have gone up-scale. Finjan's research,
AUSTIN - Do "green" products and marketing matter in the enterprise technology industry? According to GreenFactor, a global green enterprise IT study released by Strategic Oxygen, GCI Group and Cohn & Wolfe, green products are not only highly important for the environment, they are potentially profitable: More than 70 per cent of the global respondents
SAN FRANCISCO - The latest report from ZATZ Publishing highlights a surprising lack of government record-keeping oversight, along with critical cyber-security gaps that indicates without proper records management, America won't have critical records of the operation of their government. These finding were revealed in the recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit of the National Archives
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Social-news site Digg.com, a perpetual target of acquisition rumors, is in ?final negotiations? to sell itself to Google for $200 million, according to a TechCrunch report that cited multiple sources. Google has been in talks to bring Digg into the Google News group, but it could be a few weeks before the
AUBURN HILLS - Factory automation software developer Plexus Systems announced Thursday it will support Gleaners Community Food Bank in its employee community service campaign. Gleaners Community Food Bank, in collaboration with its member agencies, other area food banks and America's Second Harvest organizations, and with broad community backing and support, provides surplus donated and low-cost
WASHINGTON - High-impact firms create Michigan's new jobs and growth, according to a study recently released by the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Distributed across all industries, high-impact firms account for almost all employment and revenue growth in the national economy, the study concludes. Of the 376,604 high impact firms identified
YPSILANTI �?? Fifty three Detroit high school students, a majority female and most minorities, spent this week at Eastern Michigan University leaning about the burgeoning world of digital forensics and network security. The program, hosted by the EMU Information Assurance Center, and the Detroit Public Schools, also exposed these teenagers to geographic information systems and
LANSING - The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has agreed with lower courts, and with state attorneys general, that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is charged with regulating ballast water under the federal Clean Water Act. Attorney General Mike Cox, who is participating in the California-based case on behalf of the state, announced the
LANSING - Maria Thompson, former President and CEO, T/J Technologies, Ann Arbor, was recognized July 24 as an Entrepreneur Extraordinaire by the Small Business Foundation of Michigan. The Entrepreneur Extraordinaire recognition is given to an individual who demonstrates exceptional merit in the assumption of risks for an enterprise that transforms ideas into new value within