DEARBORN - Looking for a quality and affordable security conference in the Detroit area? One that provides nearly 60 plus educations components and that earns you 12-16 CPE credits toward your CISSP certifications? Security demands are rapidly growing while time and budgets for training are not. The Detroit SecureWorld Expo delivers the most affordable, highest
YPSILANTI ? Eastern Michigan University's Center For Regional And National Security has hired a new staff member, Samir Tout, PhD, who will be teaching and conducting research. He joins CeRNS after a career at Compuware. In other news, the Department of Defense has hired four of CeRNs' eight April graduates. Plus the merger between Information
SAN FRANCISCO - Web 2.0 sites that enable people to create content are increasingly used to carry out a wide range of attacks, according to a new security study. Websense's State of Internet Security, released Tuesday, notes that attackers are focusing their attention on interactive Web 2.0 elements. Some 95 percent of user-generated comments on
SAN FRANCISCO - Online scammers have created a phishing site masquerading as a U.S.-based bank that launches a live chat window where victims are tricked into revealing more information, researchers at the RSA FraudAction Research Team said on Wednesday. After a user accesses the phishing site, the chat window messages come through the browser and
WASHINGTON - The government has proposed changing its ban on tracking how consumers use government web sites by using cookies, the Washington Post has reported. A two-week public comment period ended Monday on a proposal by the White House Office of Management and Budget to end a ban on federal Internet sites using such technologies
WASHINGTON DC - The 2009 Annual National InfraGard Congress will be held October 14 by Secure Video Teleconference with FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has been invited to provide opening remarks. The video teleconference starts at 11 am EDT and closes by 5 pm. The InfraGard National Members Alliance will broadcast from the SVTC
WASHINGTON DC - The month of August has seen Melissa Hathaway resign the Acting Cyber-security Coordination Post and it has not been permanently filled since President Obama announced that he would make Cyber a top priority back in June. Also noteworthy, the State of Missouri's Governor Nixon announced that $1.5M in federal grants were provided
STANFORD, Conn. - Security services provided "in the cloud" have the potential to provide cost savings and faster deployment compared with equivalent-capacity, premises-based equipment, but providers are yet to deliver on customer expectations, according to Gartner. And that's bad news in more ways than one, because technologies at the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" on a
NEW YORK - The New York Times' Web site is grappling with problems created by an "unauthorized advertisement" that essentially hijacked browsers and took them to an antivirus site that tried to install software. The rogue ad had warned readers that their computer may be infected with a virus and redirects them to a site
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is investigating reports of a zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows 7 and Vista. The flaw in Windows 7 could allow an attack which would cause a critical system error, or "blue screen of death," according to researcher Laurent Gaffie, reported by CNET News.Com. Gaffie wrote in his