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
STAMFORD, Conn. - The worldwide security revenue market totaled $10.4 billion in 2007, an increase of almost 20 per cent from 2006, where revenues totaled $8.7 billion, says a new study. The Gartner report also noted that there is an increasing shift toward offering appliance based products, particularly within certain segments such as e-mail security
YPSILANTI - In July, Eastern Michigan University�??s Information Assurance program and the Institute for Geospatial Studies will host 60 Detroit High School youth in a National Science Foundation ITEST Grant Program that will expose them to GIS, Cyber Security, Network Security and Computer Forensics. The summer camp runs from July 20 �?? 25. EMU is
AUBURN HILLS - Plexus Systems, provider of Plexus Online on-demand software for the manufacturing enterprise, announces it has set key targets for data continuity and disaster recovery for its innovative Plexus Online Software as a Service. Using a redundant infrastructure with replicated data offsite, and the latest in data streaming technology, Plexus Systems has targeted
WASHINGTON DC - Revision3 has investigated the denial of service attack that kept it offline over the Memorial Day weekend and has concluded that antipiracy group MediaDefender is to blame. In a blog post on Thursday morning, Revision3 Chief Executive Jim Louderback writes that much of the traffic that bombarded the Web TV network was
TROY ? The Walsh College IAC Center will host a week-long seminar June 14 to prepare security professionals for the CISSP certification exam. The minimum professional experience requirement for CISSP certification will be five years of relevant work experience in two or more of the 10 domains of the CISSP CBK, or four years of