NEW YORK - More than half of Facebook and MySpace users surveyed have posted risky personal details about themselves online, according to the results of a new survey from Consumer Reports. The magazine's State of the Net 2010 report, published in its June 2010 issue and discussed in its Electronics blog on Tuesday, also discovered
SAN FRANCISCO - After four years as chief security officer at MySpace, Hemanshu Nigam is leaving his full-time job to start a new firm that advises companies on how to handle safety, security, and privacy. Nigam, who will continue to advise MySpace and its parent company News Corp., hopes to bring his expertise to start-ups,
WASHINGTON DC - On April 6-7, the InfraGard National Members Alliance and the Houston, Acadiana, New Orleans, and Mobile Chapters led a multi-state Full Scale Exercise in collaboration with law enforcement agencies and critical infrastructure firms from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. More than 150 persons from more than 70 different public and private sector
TROY - Walsh College will hold the CISSP Exam June 12 at the Troy campus starting at 8:30 AM in room 199. Please register for the exam at ISC2.Org Walsh College will host the annual Spring Student Capstone Fair June 12, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Please stop by to view student projects.
SOUTHFIELD - Sandeep Chandra, Research Analyst at Ford Motor Company, will demonstrate how to do sidejacking - the most dangerous of all cyber attacks that target personal information, credentials, bank accounts and social networking accounts ? at the May 20 meeting of Motor City ISSA. Victims of these Man-In-The-Middle attacks are completely oblivious to these
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Google issued a course correction for the stable version of Chrome on Wednesday. In addition to JavaScript sluggishness and Java plug-in issues introduced in the previous version, Google also made three critical security patches to its browser. The last version of Google Chrome stable, version 4.1.249.1059, was using an incorrect path for
BIRMINGHAM ? Last month's hearing on the nominations of Keith Alexander to head CYBERCOM (and Admiral Winnfield to head NORAD and NORTHCOM) were the first time that operational responsibilities of CYBERCOM have been discussed in a public forum. The Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin (D Michigan) began by posing three scenarios
REDMOND, Wa. - A critical vulnerability affecting Microsoft Windows 2000 Server running Windows Media Services will remain unfixed until Microsoft re-releases a patch for it, the company said on Friday. A patch for the hole, which could allow an attacker to take control of a system, was released during Patch Tuesday two weeks ago, CNET
BURLINGAME, CALIF. - It was a tiny mistake with epic consequences, and now the company responsible says it wants to make amends. Last week McAfee released a new version of its security virus software that, mistakenly, included in its list of PC-eating viruses a program that was, in fact, a standard part of the Windows
SAN DIEGO - Two researchers say they have found a way to exploit weaknesses in the mobile telecom system to legally spy on people by figuring out the private cell phone number of anyone they want, tracking their whereabouts, and listening to their voice mail. Independent security researcher Nick DePetrillo and Don Bailey, a security