OTTAWA, Ontario - The IT industry must help citizens reclaim their digital identities. That's the view of a top Canadian civil servant dealing with the issue, Ontario's information and privacy commissioner Anne Cavoukian. Cavoukian made reference in a recent paper to how people are losing control of their personal information that is globally circulating in
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - McAfee has discovered the use of Google Docs by spammers that circumvent spam filters in order to deliver their unsolicited messages. Google Docs is Google's online rival to Microsoft's Word text processing application. By hosting their message on legitimate sites such as Google Docs, spammers make it harder for anti-spam technology
NEW YORK - Economic and policy problems have placed a few potholes in front of the fast-growing clean-technology business. Forecasts for clean-technology adoption all point upward these days, buoyed by high double digits growth rates in sectors like wind and solar power over the past several years. But a panel of financial experts here at
BEIJING, China - If you want information about the earthquake in China get it from a news site and not from a link to a video that arrives in your e-mail inbox. That's the message from the US-CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) on Thursday. The group has received reports of a new variant of the
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan named State Representative Brian Calley as the organization's 2008 Legislator of the Year. Rep. Calley was presented the honor at SBAM's June 19 annual meeting and networking luncheon in East Lansing. SBAM President and CEO Rob Fowler says Calley is a promising elected official who fights for
ANN ARBOR - The price of a gallon of gas, now averaging $4 a gallon in the United States, is having a major impact on the international automotive industry and the way it conducts business. The implications of fuel-cost increases reach far beyond sales trends - technology, manufacturing, and policy are all critical components of
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan announced its officers at the organization's June 19 annual meeting and networking luncheon in East Lansing. Chair: Tom Mathison, Tower Pinkster Architects, Grand Rapids First Vice Chair: Mike Fox, Ingenuity IEQ, Midland Second Vice Chair: Cynthia Kay, Cynthia Kay and Company, Grand Rapids Secretary: Becki Kraus, Rebecca
DETROIT - InfraGard has made decisions at the national level to both make it easier for people to join and to guarantee the security of members who join to be a part of securely sharing sensitive information. Within the next few months, FBI will be requiring the rollout of a New Systems Upgrade, which will
STAMFORD, Conn. - The worldwide security revenue market totaled $10.4 billion in 2007, an increase of almost 20 per cent from 2006, where revenues totaled $8.7 billion, says a new study. The Gartner report also noted that there is an increasing shift toward offering appliance based products, particularly within certain segments such as e-mail security
YPSILANTI - In July, Eastern Michigan University�??s Information Assurance program and the Institute for Geospatial Studies will host 60 Detroit High School youth in a National Science Foundation ITEST Grant Program that will expose them to GIS, Cyber Security, Network Security and Computer Forensics. The summer camp runs from July 20 �?? 25. EMU is