DETROIT - Dan Shoemaker, who is in charge of the University of Detroit Mercy's Information Assurance Center, is on his way to Paris to help the European Union develop a European strategy to secure cyberspace, starting with tightening up software code. Shoemaker is one of four delegates from the United States that will share details
SOUTHFIELD - Data Breach Investigation Report is the topic March 19 for Motor City ISSA, as David Ostertag offers a comprehensive data-driven report on forensics and computer crime investigations - gathered from 500 cases over a 4-year period. RSVP deadline is March 16. Ostertag from the Verizon Business' Investigative Response team will share insights gathered
BOSTON - A study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of McAfee examining the use of Web 2.0 technology in the enterprise has found that it will continue to increase. The survey, entitled "Next-Generation Secure Web Gateway Trends and Requirements," polled 253 IT professionals and security decision makers around the world. It concluded that the
SAN JOSE - Information from security firm Symantec added. Attackers are making the rounds and exploiting a critical security flaw in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9. Earlier versions of the PDF-related software are also affected by the critical security flaw, which could cause the applications to crash and potentially let an attacker gain control
CARSON CITY, Nevada - A proposed bill in the Nevada State Legislature would make it a crime to do legitimate research on security weaknesses in radio frequency identification, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported. . The bill, S.B. 125, would make it a Class 3 felony to possess, read, or capture another person's personal identifying information
WEST PALM BEACH, FL - If you bought something at a Best Buy store in West Palm Beach, Fla., late last year, or stayed at a Wyndham hotel in Florida last summer, or used a U.S. government travel Web site you might want to check your credit card statements closely. Best Buy warned this week
NOVI - At a time when critical infrastructure security is a national priority, ITC Holdings Corp. has been recognized for its efforts to safeguard the reliability of the high voltage electric system in Michigan. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, an international regulatory authority for the reliability of the bulk power system in North America,
PITTSBURGH - The University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs has added Palantir Government - a network-analysis software program designed to organize counter terrorism and cyber security intelligence to its security and intelligence studies curriculum. Developed by Palantir Technologies, Palantir Government has been widely used within U.S. intelligence, defense, and law enforcement
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced on Thursday she is appointing attorney Mary Ellen Callahan as the department's chief privacy officer. "Homeland security and privacy are not mutually exclusive, and having a seasoned professional like Mary Ellen on the team further ensures that privacy is built in to everything we do,"
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - McAfee Inc. has announced the release of a new set of McAfee Data Protection solutions. "It is the coming together of all the products that [McAfee] has acquired in the data protection space over the last several years onto a common management platform and coming together as a unified solution for