ASPEN, Colo.- Recording industry and motion picture lobbyists are renewing their push to convince broadband providers to monitor customers and detect copyright infringements, claiming the concept is working abroad and should be adopted in the United States. A representative of the recording industry said this week that her companies would prefer to enter into voluntary
CUPERTINO, Ca. - According to Zero Day Initiative security vulnerability analyst Cameron Hotchkies, hackers are taking increasing aim at iPhones and Macintosh computers as these Apple devices gain popularity and market share worldwide. ZDI is an organization devoted to scrutinizing programming holes and crafting "patches" to prevent hackers from exploiting weaknesses. "We are seeing an
WASHINGTON DC - According to a new report released by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, U.S. organizations lose an estimated seven percent of their annual revenues to fraud - but the damage is the worst among small businesses. Among the fraud cases detailed for the survey, the median loss suffered by organizations with fewer
LANSING - The Michigan House Office Building has gone through some technology upgrades over the past couple years, including adding laptops to committee rooms, providing a screen in the elevators to show which floor houses which offices and installing a flat screen television in the lobby to show visitors which committees are meeting. But in
ANN ARBOR - Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan. Cloud computing refers to applications and services provided seamlessly on the Internet. Traditional antivirus software is installed on millions of individual computers
SAN FRANCSICO - Twitter's time has finally come. The microblogging service, once the playground of the Web 2.0 digerati, is now mainstream enough to be targeted by online criminals. Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a fake Twitter profile created solely for the purpose of infecting people's computers, CNET News.Com reported. The profile, with an alias that
FRAMINGHAM, Ma. - Increasing adoption of various networking technologies, especially those outside of traditional core routing and switching, is creating a skills gap in the market. An IDC white paper sponsored by Cisco Learning Institute found that there is a 60,000-person shortfall in the supply of networking talent and the skills shortage is expected to
NEW YORK CITY - Symantec Corp. has unveiled the beta of its Norton 2009 product line-up that promises the fastest and lightest security in the market as well as enhancements and new features that will help consumers better protect themselves against identity theft, data leakage and their PCs from the latest malware threats. "[Customers have
SAN FRANCISCO - The latest report from ZATZ Publishing highlights a surprising lack of government record-keeping oversight, along with critical cyber-security gaps that indicates without proper records management, America won't have critical records of the operation of their government. These finding were revealed in the recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit of the National Archives
YPSILANTI �?? Fifty three Detroit high school students, a majority female and most minorities, spent this week at Eastern Michigan University leaning about the burgeoning world of digital forensics and network security. The program, hosted by the EMU Information Assurance Center, and the Detroit Public Schools, also exposed these teenagers to geographic information systems and