TROY - Your company finds great marketing value in utilizing social media, but are you aware of the accompanying risks? What are you doing to protect yourself from potential liability that could arise? This half-day session on Dec. 2 at Walsh College in Troy will explore the legal implications of social networking for your organization
DETROIT - If you are a small business and do any of your banking online these days (and who doesn't), you need to be aware of a very pervasive new scam that targets small businesses in particular. The FBI recently released a warning to small business stating that if they are using ACH money transfers,
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands - A hacker in the Netherlands broke into some jailbroken iPhones and sent text messages to the owners asking them to pay to find out how to secure their phones, according to postings in a Dutch forum called Tweakers.net. One of the victims posted a screenshot from his iPhone of the
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - The Lose/Lose game warns players before they launch the application that they are likely to have files deleted. And as such was flagged this week as malware, a Trojan Symantec has dubbed OSX.Loosemaqure. How did this come about? Well CNET News.Com explained as part of his Master of Fine Arts thesis
SAN FRANCISCO - A zero-day flaw in the TLS and SSL protocols, which are commonly used to encrypt Web pages, has been made public. Security researchers Marsh Ray and Steve Dispensa unveiled the TLS (Transport Layer Security) flaw on Wednesday, following the disclosure of separate, but similar, security findings. TLS and its predecessor, SSL (Secure
SAN JOSE, Ca. - McAfee has released research finding from a global study that midsize organizations are cutting their security budgets at the same time that cyberthreats are escalating. The study found that more than half of midsize companies surveyed globally have seen more security incidents in the past year, and a single midsized company
ANN ARBOR - The Information Assurance Program at Eastern Michigan, Compsat Security, the State of Michigan Department of Technology, and Critical Infrastructure Cyber Protection and Awareness Division, Department of Homeland Security are presenting a one-day training event for small business to assist them in securing their cyber space. This event is free and includes lunch.
ANN ARBOR - When a fire or other emergency occurs, those rushing to respond want to know where their team members are at all times. ERT Systems LLC has developed a product that does exactly that, with the help of the Michigan Small Business Development Center. ERT Systems has created Onsite ERT, a portable and
ANN ARBOR ? Scientists in the United States will now be able work remotely with the Large Hadron Collider, a massive particle accelerator spanning the French-Swiss border nicknamed "The Big Bang Machine," through a new partnership announced by Level 3 Communications and Internet2. Under the agreement, U.S. LHCNet, Internet2 and Level 3 will connect a
ANN ARBOR - The office of Information and Infrastructure Assurance at the University of Michigan will host six nationally-known experts in the field of information technology security on October 20 at SUMIT 09. "Our symposium brings leading IT security experts annually to Ann Arbor," said Paul Howell, chief IT security officer at the University of