GRANDVILLE ? Trivalent Group will host BIASurvivor, a no-cost disaster recovery workshop for the business community, July 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at its Grandville headquarters. Disaster recovery experts from Trivalent Group will share strategies to increase an organization?s survivability by building an effective business continuity plan. A University of Texas study of
ANN ARBOR - Online Tech will host a three-part series of free educational webinars on modern security standards starting July 19 at 2pm ET. The educational webinar series will focus on HIPAA compliance, network and application security, and new solutions for cloud computing security. ?Protecting sensitive information is becoming increasingly important for companies, especially with
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SAN FRANCISCO - Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have detailed a new botnet - a collection of infected computers controlled by cybercriminals - called TDL-4, that might just be "indestructible." TDL-4 gets its name by being the fourth generation of the botnet. In 2008, the original TDL appeared. It has been altered over the last
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Google may see its Chrome operating system as more secure than traditional alternatives, but one security researcher believes the cloud-based OS is vulnerable, according to a Reuters story. WhiteHat Security researcher Matt Johansen said he found a flaw in a Chrome OS application that he was able to exploit to gain control
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Police are investigating a possible data breach at a NATO-related Web site. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said the "probable data breach" involved NATO's e-Bookshop, a service for releasing documents to the public that's operated by an external company. The site does not contain classified documents, NATO said in a statement Thursday,
SAN FRANCISCO - Anonymous is picking up where the apparently disbanded LulzSec left off. The hacking organization released information to the Web last night that came from the Cyberterrorism Defense Initiative's Security and Network Training Initiative and National Education Laboratory (Sentinel) program. The Sentinel program is administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and
SAN FRANCISCO - Ryan Cleary, the alleged hacker who was arrested last week and subsequently charged in the U.K. with five counts of hacking, has been released from jail. Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith granted Cleary bail today but imposed some limitations on the 19-year-old, CNET News.Com reported. According to the U.K.'s Mirror, Cleary has a 9
HARTFORD, Conn. ? Hackers who claimed responsibility for online attacks of Sony Corp. and the CIA said they compromised the security of more than 1,000 accounts of a Connecticut-based FBI partner organization, hours before releasing a web manifesto calling for "war" on governments that control the Internet. The online collective Lulz Security said it attacked
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Thursday the addition of Jim Lundberg to the Merit staff as the Upper Peninsula Member Relations Manager. Lundberg recently retired from Bay de Noc Community College where he spent 30 years, including the last fifteen years as the Director of Technical Services, ITS. "I am just absolutely thrilled and