NEW YORK - This should come as no surprise to anyone, but people in the U.S. are worried that as the economy worsens, the chances for identity fraud, particularly with regard to credit card data theft, will increase. Nearly 75 percent of Americans believe that the global financial crisis increases their risk of identity and
Microsoft has decided to delay its integrated security suite, codenamed Stirling, until the fourth quarter of 2009. Stirling was initially supposed to ship in the first half of this year. According to Microsoft, the company will begin releasing the suite in the fourth quarter of 2009 with the launch of Forefront Server Security for Exchange
YPSILANTI - The Information Assurance program at Eastern Michigan University is sponsoring a special class for Enterprise Incident Response. If you are a network administrator or involved with network security this class is a must for you. Course Description: Principles and practices to address computer incident response for modern enterprise computing environments. Tools, techniques, and
REDMOND - The use of scareware and exploits that take advantage of common file formats like PDF, Excel and Word rose in the second half of last year as online scammers realized people are getting smarter about recognizing spam and phishing e-mails, according to a Microsoft security report released last week. There was a significant
WASHINGTON DC - The Pentagon spent more than $100 million in the past six months cleaning up after Internet attacks and network issues, military leaders said on last week. "The important thing is that we recognize that we are under assault from the least sophisticated-what I would say the bored teenager-all the way up to
SOUTHFIELD - To have a successful information security program, you must first visualize the successful program. The first person you must sell, before your boss, is yourself. The April 16 meeting of the Motor City Chapter of ISSA look at ways to sell that message. The session also will discuss establishing a short-term goal, achieving
LANSING - Rep. Paul Opsommer (R-DeWitt) said Monday the governor's newly created Information Privacy Protection Council and the chief privacy officer should review the state's memorandum of agreement with the federal government regarding enhanced driver's licenses, arguing the use of radio frequency identification chips poses a privacy risk. The Legislature approved the enhanced driver's license
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm has ordered departments to take better care of personal information, creating the Information Privacy Protection Council to oversee those efforts. She made the Parole Board, eventually, smaller and the Great Lakes Wind Council larger. The IPPC (Executive Order ), created in the Department of Information Technology and led by the
WASHINGTON DC - The Supreme Court won't consider reinstating Virginia's antispam law, among the nation's toughest in banning unsolicited emails. The court Monday said it will leave in place a ruling by the Virginia Supreme Court that the law was unconstitutional because it prohibited political, religious and other messages in addition to commercial solicitations. Virginia
MOUNTAIN VIEW - There's been lots of hype about the fact that the latest variant of the Conficker worm is set to start communicating with other computers on the Internet on April 1 - like a bad April Fool's joke. But security researchers say the reality is probably going to be more like what happened