mikebrennan

About Mike Brennan

Founder of Michigan News Network, and serves as CEO, as well as Editor & Publisher of MITECHNEWS.COM. Brennan has worked since 1980 as a technology writer at newspapers in New York, NY, San Jose, CA., Seattle, WA., Memphis, TN., Detroit, MI., and London, England. He co-founded and served as managing editor of Pacific Rim News Service (SEATTLE), which developed a network of more than 100 freelance journalists in 17 Asia-Pacific countries.

Cyber Patriot Seeking Cyber Security Experts To Mentor Grade School Students

ANN ARBOR - Tamara Shoemaker and Bridget Kravachenko provide deep dive on Cyber Patriot program that teaches grade school students from Kindergarten to 12th grade how to protect themselves from hackers and predators when they are surfing the Internet. The Michigan program, led by Tamara, also is seeking cybersecurity experts to serve as mentors to

By |2021-12-14T10:20:21-05:00December 6th, 2021|Cyber Defense, mitechtv|

LTU’s Centrepolis Accelerator Gets $150,000 NEI Grant To Support Small Manufacturers In Wayne County

SOUTHFIELD—The New Economy Initiative has made a $150,000 grant to the Centrepolis Accelerator at Lawrence Technological University to support new and existing small product manufacturers located in Wayne County by members of historically underrepresented groups. The grant will fund a “MicroMakers Evolution Lab” to serve companies led by women, people of color, veterans, people with

By |2021-12-06T12:40:38-05:00December 6th, 2021|ESD|

US Military’s Hacking Unit Acknowledges Taking Offensive Action To Disrupt Russian Ransomware Ops

WASHINGTON DC - Cyber Command, the US military's hacking unit, has taken offensive action to disrupt cybercriminal groups that have launched ransomware attacks on US companies, a spokesperson for the command confirmed to CNN Sunday. The spokesperson declined to specify what actions the command had taken. But it's one of the first, unequivocal acknowledgements from

By |2021-12-06T12:37:02-05:00December 6th, 2021|Cyber Defense|

MITech TV: Ware·ologie Pivots, Private Equity Updates From MVCA, Michigan Angels, CitySide Ventures

ANN ARBOR - On MITech TV Dec. 6 at 2 pm,  Gina Adams Founder of Ware·ologie updates new products she showcases this week at the LTU Accelerator.  At 2:15 - Ara Topouzian, Executive Director, Michigan Venture Capital Association, recaps 2021 venture activity in Michigan. At 2:30 Skip Simms, Managing Partner of Michigan Angels, recaps 2021

By |2021-12-06T15:28:50-05:00December 6th, 2021|Podcasts|

Climate Scientist Warns Countries Going To Start Geoengineering Earth – Consequences Could Be Disastrous

WASHINGTON DC - Surprise: It’d actually be much cheaper to artificially change the world’s climate than you probably think. So cheap, in fact, that one scientist believes that some countries might soon geoengineer the planet in response to climate change. Kate Ricke, a climate scientist and researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, told Wired that since geoengineering is actually so

By |2021-12-05T17:36:02-05:00December 5th, 2021|Climate Change, Science|

U.S. Satellites Are Being Attacked Every Day According To Space Force General

WASHINGTON DC - US Space Force's General David Thompson, the service's second in command, said last week that Russia and China are launching "reversible attacks," such as electronic warfare jamming, temporarily blinding optics with lasers, and cyber attacks, on U.S. satellites "every single day." He also disclosed that a small Russian satellite used to conduct an

By |2021-12-05T16:54:26-05:00December 5th, 2021|Cyber Defense|

FlexJobs Names 50 Virtual Companies Thriving on Remote Work

BOULDER, Co. – A recent FlexJobs survey revealed that 58 percent of respondents prefer a fully remote job post-pandemic. However, 42 percent also report that their employers will require them to return to the office full-time, and 27 percent will be expected to return to a hybrid model. To highlight the many different companies that

By |2021-12-05T14:35:16-05:00December 5th, 2021|Entrepreneurs, Featured|

Is the Office Dying? Of Those Who Quit During the Pandemic, One In Four Did For Flexibility To Work From Anywhere

New York - As many companies wonder why their workplaces remain ghost towns, a new survey reveals that COVID concerns are not what’s discouraging staff from coming into the office. In fact, they are working from home because of the greater work-life balance it purportedly offers. Indeed, workers place such a premium on this balance,

By |2021-12-05T14:35:46-05:00December 5th, 2021|Entrepreneurs, Featured|

Intense Storms From Global Warming – A Mission To Study Them

DETROIT - As global warming has progressed, you might have noticed more weird weather, including more intense storms. It appears certain now that climate change does affect localized tropical storms and thunderstorms. Scientists want to know exactly how that’s happening. And they want to know how these storms in turn affect their climate models. So, in November 2021, NASA announced it had selected a new

By |2021-12-02T12:24:07-05:00December 2nd, 2021|Climate Change, Featured, Science|

Latest Cybersecurity Threats Disclosed By Stiennon and Lohrmann

ANN ARBOR - Cybersecurity professionals Richard Stiennon, founder of IT-Harvest, and Dan Lohrmann, VP at Presidio.Com, update the latest cyber threats and address how to fill the 600,000 cybersecurity job openings nationwide. Also covered was identifying a 28-year-old Russian hacker responsible for millions of dollars in ransomware attacks, zero trust defensive strategies, and insurers running

By |2021-12-01T18:29:12-05:00December 1st, 2021|Cyber Defense, mitechtv|