DEARBORN - The Detroit SecureWorld starts in just 4 weeks, November 5-6 to the Ford Conference and Event Center. MiTech News is partnered with SecureWorld and offers readers a discount to attend the event. MiTech News Subscribers can register for the full conference and receive a $30 discount off the $195 two day conference pass,
YPSILANTI - Eastern Michigan University has been recertified through June 2014 for mapping its information assurance courses to National Security Standards � - a step towards getting EMU recertified as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security. EMU had lost its CAE certification
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - In Symantec's October Monthly Spam report, the most significant finding was the percentage of malware detected in all e-mail messages increased 12-times. Between June and September, the amount of malware detected in scanned e-mail messages increased from a tenth of a percent in June to 1.2 per cent in of September.
HOLLAND - One of the biggest obstacles to choosing an effective data and IT protection scenario is cost. Server virtualization along with real-time data replication and failover technology, are capabilities that provide a high level of data protection while keeping costs at a minimum. ISG engineers will conduct live demonstrations of this technology Oct. 29
FLINT TOWNSHIP - Managed data center Online Technologies Corporation is hosting a free educational seminar on disaster recovery and electronic backup for CIOs and IT Managers on Oct. 16. Online Technologies has partnered with UHY Advisors, Coretek Services, and Capricorn Diversified Systems to deliver the seminar. The seminar will run from 10AM to 1PM and
SOUTHFIELD - Kathryn Ossian, an IT practice leader at Miller Canfield, will talk about what businesses need to know about privacy and data breach notification laws Oct. 16 at the next meeting of Motor City ISSA. Ossian will address applicable federal privacy laws, identity theft and data breach notification laws in Michigan and California and
ANN ARBOR - Adaptive Materials, a developer of portable solid oxide fuel cell technology, has successful tested its hybrid system for small ground robots, a key milestone in the company's 2-year project with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Adaptive Materials has proven that its fuel cell system can power small robots across various terrains
MIAMI - Mortgage giant Countrywide Financial earlier this month informed as many as 2 million customers their personal data, including social security numbers, may have been stolen. The data was allegedly stolen from the mortgage company's computer system. The information was being sold to mortgage brokers as sales leads. The breach was one of the
NEW YORK - Hackers have broken into BusinessWeek's online site and set up an attack scenario in which visitors to a section of the site could have their own computers compromised and their data stolen, a security researcher said earlier this month. It's unclear how long the site has been compromised and there is no
LAS VEGAS - Symantec Corp. has announced the latest versions of Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery that now includes comprehensive data protection and recovery of virtual and physical systems. Backup Exec 12.5 now offers data protection for VMware ESX Server and Microsoft's Hyper-V Systems. Features include the ability to take one agent to