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
YPSILANTI - RF Security technology provider Ensure Technologies has developed a new relationship with PC Mall Inc., one of the fastest-growing direct marketers of technology solutions. PC Mall will include the XyLoc Solo solution on the PC Mall website and in their catalog, actively marketing the product to consumers, individual departments and small organizations in
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
DETROIT - Michigan InfraGard members - plan to be in Washington DC September 30 and October 1 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center for the two day SecureWorld Expo. A Keynote from the recently appointed National Cyber Security Center Director, Rod Beckstrom will open the conference. Director Beckstrom will highlight the DHS perspective on
LANSING - The Michigan Homeland Security Consortium has appointed two new Executive Board Officers from within the homeland security industry sector. The newly elected officers are Stephen Potter, President of Patriot Service in Southfield and Renae Wallace, President, and CEO of Wallace RS Electric in Traverse City. Keith Brophy of RCM Technologies and Thomas Hines
SAN FRANCISCO - A team of computer scientists has published source code that can in some circumstances bypass encryption used in Microsoft's BitLocker and Apple's FileVault and be used to view the contents of supposedly secure files. A report published by CNET News.Com in February described how the contents of a computer's memory could be
BEIJING, China - If you want information about the earthquake in China get it from a news site and not from a link to a video that arrives in your e-mail inbox. That's the message from the US-CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) on Thursday. The group has received reports of a new variant of the