LANSING - Without some change that will stem the losses in the individual coverage market, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan risks losing it franchise, company officials said on Monday. But Attorney General Mike Cox said any changes to the individual market had to include full hearings on the insurer's rates. Blue Cross Chief Financial
TROY - The Motor City Chapter of ISSA will review Information Security threats and issues for 2008 and forecast what's in store for 2009 on Dec. 18 at Walsh College. New President Steve Hill also will discuss how the ISSA Can Empower Security Strategists and Practitioners. Chapter elections results will be announced at the meeting.
SAN FRANCISCO - The alleged vulnerability reportedly allowed an attacker to set up filters on users' e-mail accounts without their knowledge, according to a proof of concept posted Sunday at the blog Geek Condition. In the post, Geek Condition's Brandon wrote that the vulnerability had caused some people to lose their domain names registered through
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft is listed fifth in the Top 10 list of the worst spam service ISPs compiled by Spamhaus.org. Spammers are advertising links to sites that ?peddle fake pharmacy products, porn, and Nigerian 419 scams? on Microsoft's Live.com and Livefilestore.com sites because they know that the Microsoft sites won't get blocked by antispam
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Over the past year, the volume of spam e-mail from Web-based mail services like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft's Hotmail and Live Mail has doubled, according to a report to be published in December by e-mail security firm MessageLabs. The culprit? Turing's hypothesis come to life: bots that slip through the
ANN ARBOR - Advanced Photonix, which makes opto-electronic products and Terahertz sensors and instrumentation, cut its operating loss for the second quarter to $225,000 from $768,000 in the same quarter a year ago. Operating income year to date was $14,000 compared to an operating loss of $1.8 million for the prior year to date period.
LANSING - Stephen Potter is the new chairman and president of the Michigan Homeland Security Consortium, a non-profit organization dedicated to driving the growth of the Homeland Security Industry in the State of Michigan. Potter�??s day job is as president of PatriotServices in Walled Lake. To learn more about MIHSC and PatriotServices listen to this
DETROIT - Don't forget to make plans to be at the Ford Conference Center in Dearborn next Wednesday and Thursday for Detroit SecureWorld. This year's conference features an InfraGard Conference and Keynote breakfast. Starting at 8:15am on November 6th, the InfraGard event features Joseph Dittmar, World Trade Center Survivor, Always Remember Initiative who will be
TROY - Plan now to attend the Information Technology Society Fall Conference on November 1 at Walsh College where IT leaders from top-level metro Detroit organizations will brief attendees on the latest Security trends and issues. The program is runs from 9 am to noon at Walsh College. Dave Nehra, the CIO of Motor City
SOUTHFIELD - While Russian tanks were lining up on the road to Georgia this past August there was a flurry of activity as Russian cyber forces prepared to launch the first ever DDos attacks in support of an invasion. In a presentation Nov. 20 at the Motor City Chapter of ISSA, Richard Steinnen will discuss