WASHINGTON - A new report prepared for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has concluded that the Asian nation is likely using his sophisticated IT systems to spy on America. The report, released Thursday, analyzed China's information warfare strategy and offered up a case study in which an unnamed U.S. company was infiltrated by
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft on Friday said it is working on a fix for a vulnerability in the Server Message Block file-sharing protocol in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Release 2 that could be used to remotely crash a computer. The software giant had said that it was looking at the bug, discovered by
SAN FRANCISCO - VeriSign, which runs the master database for such domains as .com and .net, says a significant Internet security vulnerability will be closed by 2011, after delays caused by technical aspects of the implementation. The problem is that DNS, the Domain Name System that translates Internet addresses into numerical values, can be seeded
YPSILANTI - Trend Carpenter, the new Michigan Chief Information Security Officer, talks about how he plans to follow in the footsteps of his former boss, Dan Lohrmann, now Michigan's Chief Technology Officer. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
TROY ? Intelligent Connections is hosting a luncheon on Nov. 18 at Maggiano's Little Italy to update executives on how Internet Security has changed in a Web 2.0 world. This is a free event and RSVP is required. Web 2.0 has changed how companies use the Internet. Businesses have started to utilize Web 2.0 on
DETROIT - Eastern Michigan University's Center for Regional and National Security hosted a day-long security seminar in October that matched security students with business that need security services. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
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