GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan Chapter of the American Society for Industrial Security named Van Andel Institute Physical Security Director Kevin M. Denhof, CPP, Security Practitioner of the Year at its annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner on May 31. This is the second time Denhof has received the award, the first time being in
KALAMAZOO - At the 2012 Great Lakes InfraGard Conference June 20 at the Fetzer Center at Western Michigan University leaders in their industries will discuss trends relating to risks to critical infrastructure and efforts to protect these assets. This daylong event will feature speaker Jim Darrow, Director of Technical Services for Ilitch Holdings and luncheon
DETROIT - Butzel Long Litigation Technology Specialist Stephanie Shattuck has been appointed Detroit Chapter Director of Women in eDiscovery. In this role, she is responsible for the overall management of the chapter. The mission of the Women in eDiscovery is to bring together businesswomen interested in technology related to the legal industry and to provide
SAN FRANCISCO - Web users in Iran and Syria attempting to use a proxy tool to freely surf the Internet are reportedly being tracked by a new Trojan. The proxy software known as Simurgh is used by many Iranian and Syrian citizens to make it seem as if their secure Internet connections are coming from
SAN FRANCISCO - Security firm Bitdefender has introduced Clueful (iTunes), an app that lets you see what information other applications installed on your phone might have access to. Once installed, the $3.99 app scans your device to see what's installed and puts it in an ordered list that can be filtered based on the various
SAN FRANCISCO - Google is using a clever Domain Name System hack to let people infected with the DNSChanger malware know that they have only a few weeks left before their Internet connection goes dead. The warning that will appear at the top of search results for people whose computers are infected. The effort, scheduled
WASHINGTON DC - In a new hack into the U.S. Department of Justice's Web site, Anonymous claims to have grabbed "lots of shiny things such as internal emails, and the entire database dump." In a hack it dubbed "Monday Mail Mayhem," Anonymous claims to have collected and released 1.7GB of data from the U.S. Department
DEARBORN ? The next quarterly installment of the 2012 Michigan Cyber Awareness Breakfast Conference Series will take place June 5 in Dearborn where the focus will be on the next generation cyber awareness and communications. The agenda for the event, at the Henry Hotel, is as follows: 8:30 am Registration, Networking & Breakfast 9:00 am
TROY ? Automation Alley is hosting a conference June 14 designed to create an awareness among companies whose trade secrets and other confidential data may be compromised by hackers who infiltrate their networks. Last year alone, cyber thieves cost U.S. companies $400 billion in intellectual property (IP) while severely undermining our nation?s global competitiveness and
MOSCOW - Kaspersky Lab is developing a secure operating system platform. The target market: Utilities, nuclear reactors, financial systems, and other companies that need to defend their IT systems from so-called cyber warfare and cyber terrorism attacks. Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky briefly described the secure operating system project during a keynote this morning at