SAN FRANCISCO - Wickr, an SMS encryption program, launched Monday in beta on Android. The app's argument is simple: its San Francisco-based makers claim that Wickr, now cross-platform between Android and iOS, provides the most secure text messaging apparatus currently available. It uses AES-256, RSA-4096, ECDH-521, Transport Layer Security, and SHA-256 to encode data while
WASHINGTON D.C. - Follow the Money is not just a catchphrase, but an actual branch within the National Security Agency that spies on payments processed by Visa and others, according to Der Spiegel. Citing documents from 2010 leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the German news magazine reported Monday that the Follow the Money
LANSING - Despite opposition from conservatives in the state, and elsewhere, to proposed carbon dioxide emissions standards for power plants, Michigan's fleet of power plants should be able to meet the standards, the World Resources Institute said in a report released Monday. The report said current state renewable power and energy efficiency standards could mean
LANSING - An organization led by former Rep. Andrew "Rocky" Raczkowski is asking Attorney General Bill Schuette to enforce the Michigan Consumer Protection Act's language prohibiting charging "a price that is grossly in excess of the price at which similar property or services are sold" against hospitals. Raczkowski said Schuette concludes he has no authority
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GRAND RAPIDS - A group of ethical hackers who want to continue doing security research to show the world where computer and network vulnerabilities lie was formed earlier this summer, so said one of the leaders of I Am The Cavalry who spoke Thursday at GRRCon, a two-day hacker conference held in downtown Grand Rapids.
GRAND RAPIDS ? More than 800 security professionals attended the first day of GRRCon, Midwest Information Security & Hacker CON, roughly the same amount as the year before. But exhibitors at the show were up by a third, the show?s co-producer said Thursday. Chris Payne, a security professional in Grand Rapids, said he had to
GRAND RAPIDS - LED Lights marked the Speakers badges fueled by a tiny Arduino chip. Wireless hacking stations made you scared to get on any Wi-Fi service. You have no idea who to trust at GRRCon, the third annual Midwest IT Hacker Con, which began Thursday. Day one was packed full of events, including four
TRAVERSE CITY ? A new survey by the Ponemon Institute concludes medical identity theft and family fraud are on the rise, with the number of victims affected up 20 percent within the last year alone. The survey, sponsored by the Medical Identity Fraud Alliance with support from ID Experts, finds that medical identity theft affects
MIDLAND - Michigan Molecular Institute Research Scientist Patrick Smith was included in the 2013 class of American Chemical Society Fellows at a ceremony Monday in Indianapolis. The designation of ACS Fellow puts Smith, 63, in rarified air for an organization whose membership tops 163,000 globally; less than one percent are awarded the prestigious honor, according