BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - In its latest initiative to help large and mid-sized businesses protect their vital assets from cyber threats and other online attacks, Verizon Business is now offering its next-generation managed security services platform, complete with new options for service to better meet the security demands on today's enterprise. This newly enhanced platform
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft only just released final code for Windows 7 to manufacturers and the company is already facing a security risk. The Windows Genuine Advantage antipiracy system in the Windows 7 Ultimate release to manufacturers has reportedly been compromised by some Chinese hackers, according to a variety of Chinese forums, and first reported
TROY - In the wake of the recent H1N1 flu pandemic, Walsh College and Oakland County are hosting a free educational Pandemic Preparedness Symposium September 10 at the Troy campus, near the corner of Livernois and Wattles Roads. The Pandemic Preparedness Symposium, sponsored by Patriot Services Corporation, is being held in observance of National Preparedness
WASHINGTON DC - Two Russians and a Florida man were charged on Monday with hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven, and the Hannaford Brothers supermarket chain, and stealing data related to more than 130 million credit and debit cards. The indictment names 28-year-old Albert Gonzalez of Miami, who already has been charged with stealing data
SOUTHFIELD - Data Center Solutions LLC introduces Continuous Data Protection technologies developed by Datacastle, which provides secure, comprehensive, policy-driven PC backup and data privacy software for today's mobile workforce. Details will be provided in a webinar at 2 pm Aug. 27 and in this Security edition of Newsmaker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
TORONTO - The datacenter is increasingly being viewed as a critical business priority. Even in the poor economy, datacenters are receiving ongoing investments so they can be improved in performance and reliability, finds a new survey commissioned by CommScope found. The "Global Data Center Survey," found that 32 percent of all organizations surveyed worldwide are
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Mozilla has released the first alpha version of Firefox 3.6, a browser with speed improvements and new features the organization hopes to finalize faster than its predecessor. "Unlike the year that passed between Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.5, we expect that this 3.6 release will be released in a small number
ASHBURN, Va. - Federal agencies now have more tools from Verizon Business to manage network access, protect critical assets, help prevent insider security threats, and help the agencies comply with federal security regulations. Verizon Business announced Aug. 10 that it is offering Symark PowerSeries security access-management software and applications, integrating those security capabilities for UNIX/Linux
SAN JOSE, Ca. - Phishing attacks rose 52 percent in July while spam as a percentage of all e-mail stayed about the same compared with the previous month, according to the latest reports from Symantec that tracked spam and phishing activity for the month. With some fluctuations, spam averaged around 89 percent of all e-mail
SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter has been hacked, sort of. Actually, the Google Apps account used by Twitter employees was hacked, which led to the deeper compromise of the Twitter corporate network and the unauthorized release of data regarding the company's growth plans and credit card numbers of several employees. It's believed that a hacker named