Cyber Defense

Butzel Long Seminar To Focus On E-Discovery

DETROIT- Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Maureen Taylor will be a moderator and featured speaker during an ICLE Partnership Seminar on January 13 in Ann Arbor. Taylor talk is called "E-Discovery Update 2009" and will be webcast as well. Other featured speakers include Hon. Steven D. Pepe, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of

By |2008-12-22T00:00:00-05:00December 22nd, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

McAfee Reveals 12 Scams Of Christmas

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - McAfee is warning consumers about Bad Santas who are gearing up to rip off people who shop online during the holidays. Here are the first six of the 12 Scams, identified by McAfee's researchers. 1. Charity Phishing Scams. Many popular charitable organizations encourage consumers to think of others during the holiday

By |2008-12-16T00:00:00-05:00December 16th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Which Antivirus Software Works Best?

SAN FRANCISCO - As much as antivirus companies trumpet their evolving abilities to root out viruses, worms and Trojans on your PC, the cybersecurity industry leaves out one important piece of information: all the malicious code they're not detecting. Luckily, someone is scanning the scanners, CNET News.Com reported. On Thursday, the German nonprofit firm AV-Comparatives

By |2008-12-11T00:00:00-05:00December 11th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Mozilla Firefox 3.1, Google Chrome Via For JavaScript Performance Time

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - On Tuesday, Mozilla released Firefox 3.1 beta 2 and Google released Chrome 0.4.154.33, so it's time for the latest installment of JavaScript performance testing. Here's the highlight from CNET News.Com: Though Firefox remains the leader on the SunSpider test, with a score of 2,110, Chrome edged very close with 2,140. A

By |2008-12-09T00:00:00-05:00December 9th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Video Performance Problems Reported On New Apple MacBooks

CUPERTINO - Problems with Apple's newly redesigned MacBooks have been reported on Apple discussion boards and across the Internet, CNET News.Com reported Tuesday. The new notebooks, which have already run into problems with the trackpad, are said to have problems with video performance, third-party memory chips, and staying in sleep mode. It's always difficult to

By |2008-12-09T00:00:00-05:00December 9th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

New Cyber Security Push Is Urged By White House Panel

WASHINGTON - A commission of technology experts will propose consolidating cyber security work under a top White House official and using diplomatic, intelligence and military tools to confront threats in cyberspace. The new White House post is likely to be the most controversial of the commission's recommendations, which was released Monday and reported by The

By |2008-12-08T00:00:00-05:00December 8th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Mobile Security Threats Growing Exponentially

KALAMAZOO - With employees, managers and executives using more and more mobile devices to link back to the network at the office, mobile security threats are increasing exponentially. Rebecca Herold, a noted Security expert, discussed the growing mobile security threat in November at a ConnecTech Kalamazoo seminar. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>

By |2008-12-04T00:00:00-05:00December 4th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Michigan InfraGard Update: Quarterly Board Meeting In Lansing

LANSING - The Michigan InfraGard Members Alliance, Board of Directors quarterly meeting was held from 9am until noon on December 4th in Lansing, with several members joining by conference call. Motions Passed: The board passed a motion to retain the existing board for 2009. The current Officers and board are listed at michiganinfragard.com (you will

By |2008-12-04T00:00:00-05:00December 4th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Information Security Policy Vital To All Companies

DEARBORN - Charles Cresson Wood, CISA, CISM, CISSP, a keynote speaker at the Secure World Detroit Expo said its vital for all companies to implement an information security policy to keep the bad guys - both inside and outside the company - from stealing your company�??s secrets and intellectual property. Cresson Wood is the author

By |2008-12-04T00:00:00-05:00December 4th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

World Trade Center Attack Survivor’s Story

DEARBORN - Joseph Dittmar a World Trade Center survivor, told his moving story at the SecureWorld Detroit 2008 Expo at the Dearborn Conference. Dittmar was one of only seven insurance executives at a meeting of 54 that made it out of Tower Two alive. The biggest life lesson he said he learned was "don�??t sweat

By |2008-12-04T00:00:00-05:00December 4th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|