LANSING - Setting the stage for a more restrained 2009-10 budget, the Senate began passing appropriations bills on Thursday that reflected a tougher line on overall budget cuts, with Republicans aiming to slice 15 percent from the recommendations of Governor Jennifer Granholm. But efforts to pass a budget for the State Police stalled, though a
WASHINGTON DC - The Internet might just have gotten a little safer. The Federal Trade Commission has shut down Pricewert, which allegedly recruits, participates in spam, child pornography and other harmful electronic content. The FTC complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, resulted in the court
WASHINGTON DC - Defcon founder Jeff Moss, aka Dark Tangent, is one of the newest members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the Homeland Security Advisory Council. The HSAC members will provide recommendations and
LANSING - Wholesale tax changes - implementing a graduated income tax, levying a sales tax on services and eliminating personal property taxes and the Michigan Business Tax surcharge for businesses - were some proposals pitched to the House Tax Policy Committee on Wednesday as advocates said the initiatives would both address the state's structural deficit
DETROIT - Chrysler LLC and Fiat SpA closed their government-brokered alliance Wednesday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court removed the transaction's last remaining obstacle. The Supreme Court late Tuesday rejected creditors' objections, paving the way for Chrysler to emerge from bankruptcy protection. The auto maker filed for bankruptcy on April 30, and the government
FERNDALE - Robert Buxbaum of Oakland County's REB Research & Consulting company has been awarded an SBIR Phase 1 grant from the Department of Energy to research new, high temperature materials for use in Fourth generation nuclear power plants that could burn waste generated by other nuclear reactors. The primary material used in current nuclear
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft confirmed that it is planning for Windows 7 to hit retail shelves and start showing up on new PCs on October 22. To reach that milestone, Microsoft plans to wrap up development of the operating system by the middle or end of next month, Senior Vice President Bill Veghte said in
SAN DIEGO - Security firm Websense has put out an advisory warning Web site owners about malicious code that redirects surfers to seemingly safe sites. About 40,000 Web sites appear to have been compromised with rogue JavaScript code that redirects Web surfers to a fake Google Analytics site, after which they get passed onto a
SEATTLE - Online scammers are targeting people looking for popular topics on Twitter and Google to lure them to Web sites that display fake security warnings and try to sell them antivirus products, PandaLabs reported. This technique isn't new, but seems to be widening on Google and is particularly successful on Twitter where links are
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - On the heels of Symantec's OnlineFamily.Norton, released earlier this year, security stalwart McAfee is jumping into the family protection game with a new home-oriented protection program. Called McAfee Family Protection, the program will offer many familiar tools to parents in the hopes of fostering conversation while protecting children from harm. McAfee