LANSING ? Lansing ISSA will host the second annual Netwars Challenge Saturday at Michigan State University. Continuing education credits and prizes, including a laptop computer and a Motorola Xoom WiFi tablet, are the door prizes. The event will first instruct users and present materials on how to exploit system vulnerabilities. Then a hands-on event will
SAN DIEGO - Sony Corp. said computer hackers breached security for a second online service, gaining access to personal information for 24.6 million customer accounts as part of a broader attack on the company that has compromised data for more than 100 million accounts. Sony Online Entertainment, a San Diego-based subsidiary that makes multiplayer games
MOSCOW - A spokesman for Moscow-based antivirus company Kaspersky Lab said the company is not commenting on reports that the son of Chief Executive Eugene Kaspersky has been kidnapped. "We don't have any information to share at the moment. I'll let you know if that changes," the spokesman said in an e-mail to CNET today.
FORT LAUDERDALE ? The recent attack on marketing email provider Epsilon has resulted in millions of users' contact information being stolen, which has led security expert BullGuard to call for increased awareness of the dangers of unsolicited email and phishing attacks. The incident is being dubbed as ?one of the largest security breaches in US
SAN FRANCISCO - A group of security researchers say they have found ways to trick online cashier systems into ordering items for free or at a discount. Researchers from Indiana University and Microsoft Research found security holes in a software development kit from payment hosting provider Amazon Payments, Rui Wang, a Ph.D. student at Indiana
SAN FRANCISCO - Cisco has unveiled a series of enhancements to several Cisco physical security products designed to help customers transition to IP-based safety and security systems. The changes were announced last week, as part of the Cisco Smart+Connected Communities initiative, at ISC West in Las Vegas. Three major changes were announced, upgrades to Cisco
SAN FRANCISCO - There's a new twist with some fake antivirus scareware that has cropped up. It accepts payment via SMS, according to antivirus firm CyberDefender. Typical rogue security programs infect the system first, then display pop ups warning that the computer is infected, and request payment to clean it up. The new programs are
SAN FRANCISCO - A subtle shift in online threats targeting the corporate market is taking place, according to McAfee. Cybercriminals have transitioned from stealing personal information to targeting the corporate intellectual capital of organizations, as they perceive there is greater value in selling a corporation's proprietary information and trade secrets, which have little to no
LANSING ? Arialink and the Center for Business Innovation have formed a partnership to offer Mid-Michigan companies private cloud computing direct connection and private access to data, applications and email. This cloud offering is customized to meet company specific needs to achieve the functionality of a private data center. With fast, seamless, secure access to
GRAND RAPIDS - US Signal announced its plan to add a cloud-based Managed Data Center offering to its Managed Services portfolio by the end of the second quarter. US Signal's Managed Data Center is built with dedicated resource pools designed to rapidly provision and host Virtual Private Servers accessible through US Signal Wide Area Networks.