NOVI - Rami Efrati, Head of Civilian Sector in the Prime Minister?s office of Israel, discusses some of Israel's cyber challenges and successes at the 2013 Michigan Cyber Summit. Efrati also addresses the need to work together as partners across the globe to fight cyber threats. To view this video, click on CyberSummit
NOVI - Governor Rick Snyder, host of the 2013 Michigan Cyber Summit, shares examples of how and why cybersecurity is so critical and best practices to follow. He discusses current cybersecurity projects and initiatives in Michigan, nationally and globally to address the increasing threat and to help us be prepared. Governor Snyder announces the launch
SAN FRANCISCO - As promised, Yahoo is now automatically encrypting Yahoo Mail users' connections to the service. The company announced Tuesday it has enabled automatic HTTPS as the default for all users on the network, coming in a day before the January 8 deadline it placed on itself in October, CNET News.Com reported. With the
SAN FRANCISCO - Heads up, Snapchat users: someone has allegedly comprised 4.6 million accounts, potentially exposing your usernames and phone numbers. The Snapchat account information apparently had been posted to a site called SnapchatDB.info by an individual or group determined to prod the 2-year-old photo-sharing service, which has more than 8 million adult users in
SAN FRANCISCO - Robbing ATMs is nothing new. There's the everlasting stick-em-up, the bogus card scheme, ATM phishing, and more. But, it appears new ways are being invented to pull off successful cash machine heists. It was recently revealed that thieves were able to access loads of ATM money by injecting machines with malware using
BIRMINGHAM - My coverage of the NSA's massive data gathering and attacks on fundamental security technology has been focused on the expected impact on the IT security industry. I was one of the first to publish trepidation a day after the first Snowden report and again a week later. Recent events appear to validate my
TENAFLY, N.J. - Any organization that has not already started to think about the impact mobility has on IT security should start doing so this year. 63% of businesses provide formal access to some of their business applications to mobile users, a Quocirca research report "Digital Identities and the Open Business," showed. Furthermore, the sheer
WASHINGTON DC - A US district judge dismissed the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit against the government's top spy agency, ruling that bulk collection of telephony metadata by the NSA is lawful. In June, the ACLU filed suit to challenge the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's mass collection of phone records, arguing that the
TENAFLY, N.J. - Wow, what a year 2014 has been. Most people write a "year in review" at the end of the year. We decided to beat the rush and issue our 2014 Privacy and Security year in review now. So, what a year! Some pretty interesting developments. In terms of politics, 2014 was the
TENAFLY, N.J. - We?ve all had or seen server room doors protected by combination locks. Most safes these days are protected by electronic keypads, like the ones used to safeguard on-site backup tapes. Using digital keypads, one?s fingers transfer a minute amount of heat to each key pressed. This heat can be read by thermal