Cyber Defense

Senscy Provides Fractional Cybersecurity Protection For Small To Medium Businesses

ANN ARBOR - The greatest external threat to organizations today is cybersecurity attacks and Small to Medium Organizations (SMOs) are becoming more frequent targets each and every day. Large companies have the financial and personnel resources to manage cybersecurity issues. Smaller to Medium-Sized businesses do not have that luxury. Until now. Meet Frank Sadgehi, president

By |2025-03-12T15:22:40-04:00March 11th, 2025|Cyber Defense, mitechtv|

Spyware On Thousands Of Android And iPhones Harvesting Personal Information

NEW YORK - Hundreds of thousands of Android users, as well as several thousand iPhone users, have had their sensitive data compromised by a spouseware app, called Spyzie. The apps were found leaking email addresses, text messages, call logs, photographs, and other sensitive data, belonging to millions of people who, without their knowledge or consent,

By |2025-03-03T16:36:39-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Cyber Defense, Featured|

CyberPatriot Teaches Students How To Become Cybersecurity Pros

DEARBORN - CyberPatriot is a program aimed at grade school students that teaches them the basics of cybersecurity. Joining Matt and Mike on MITech TV is Tamara Shoemaker, who founded the program in Michigan, and hopes to develop summer camps for students to get even more hands on experience. In this video interview, she discusses

By |2025-02-25T10:28:30-05:00February 25th, 2025|Cyber Defense, mitechtv|

U-Detroit Mercy’s Cybersecurity Program Recognized As Center For Excellence By NSA

DETROIT—The cost of cybercrime is expected to reach epic proportions in 2025 to the tune of $10.5 trillion globally, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, the world’s leading researcher and publisher covering the global cyber economy. This is a significant increase from a decade ago, when that figure was estimated at about $3 trillion. Skilled information security

By |2025-02-24T18:20:55-05:00February 24th, 2025|Cyber Defense|

Cybersecurity Pro Dan Lohrmann Updates Threats From DeepSeek, DC Federal Employee Firings

ANN ARBOR - Dan Lohrmann, former Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at the State of Michigan, returns to talk about the latest cyberthreats. Those include a new Chinese Generative Artificial Intelligence tool called DeepSeek and what impact Trump's mass firings of federal employees in Washington DC may impact the United States ability

By |2025-02-18T15:35:36-05:00February 18th, 2025|Cyber Defense, mitechtv|

FBI Warns Smartphone Users To Hang Up Or Delete Texts If You Receive These

WASHINGTON DC - The FBI is warning iPhone and Android users about a string of new scams that could put bank accounts and personal data at risk. Federal officials say smartphone users should hang up immediately if they receive this specific type of call, in which the scammer is pretending to be someone they're not. The new scheme is more

By |2025-02-16T14:17:33-05:00February 15th, 2025|Cyber Defense|

iPhone And Android Warning: Hackers Infect PDF Links On Devices

SAN FRANCISCO - Scammers continuously create new tactics to extract money from unsuspecting individuals. As awareness grows around phone call scams, they've resorted to new messaging scams. Personal data security company Zimperium has discovered that a new attack "exclusively targeting mobile devices" has been caught "stealing credentials and sensitive data," MSN reported. Phone scams can

By |2025-02-04T15:19:34-05:00February 4th, 2025|Cyber Defense, Featured|

Looking For A Chief Information Officer Job?

ANN ARBOR - Executive Search Partners specializes in Information Technology searches in the United States and Canada. Managing Partner Gary Erickson said his firm is recognized as one of the best Executive Recruiting Companies in North America. Erickson said while ESP focuses on recruiting Chief Information Officers and Chief Information Security Officers, ESP also recruits

By |2025-01-28T15:29:02-05:00January 28th, 2025|Cyber Defense, mitechtv|

GhostGPT—The New Cybercrime AI Used By Hackers

NEW YORK - The security threat driven by advances in AI is hardly new news: be it billions of Gmail users, bank customers, or attacks against individuals by way of smartphone calls and messages that even the FBI has been concerned enough about to issue a warning, AI is a real and present danger when employed by

By |2025-01-26T17:14:20-05:00January 26th, 2025|Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Defense, Featured, Social Media|

IT Harvest Adds AI To Mine Its Extensive Cybersecurity Company Database

BIRMINGHAM - Cybersecurity pro Richard Stiennon has built an extensive database of more than 4,000 companies around the world that sell cybersecurity products and services. While he's been publishing that data in his annual Security Yearbook, for those that want to mine its contents faster he's created an Artificial Intelligence version that delivers answers in

By |2025-01-22T15:27:25-05:00January 21st, 2025|Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Defense, mitechtv|