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
WASHINGTON DC - Two U.S. senators introduced legislation late last month that calls for naming a national cybersecurity adviser who reports directly to the president and who would have the authority to disconnect federal or critical infrastructure networks from the Internet if they were deemed to be at risk of attack. This proposed legislation comes
SAN FRANCISCO - The Cloud Security Alliance, whose founding members include eBay, PGP, and Qualys, is seeking to promote the best ways to secure cloud computing and outline how to use cloud computing for the protection of other types of computing. "The very nature of how businesses use information technology is being transformed by the
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 - 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
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
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