WASHINGTON - Politicians from states opposed to the U.S. government's Real ID plan had one message on Wednesday: It's not too late to turn this ship around. Mark Sanford, the Republican governor of South Carolina, and Jon Tester, a Democratic U.S. senator from Montana, on Wednesday delivered a now-familiar bruising to the controversial national driver's
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Consumers are being warned that they may get an ad instead of a music or video file on several file-sharing sites in what security firm McAfee says is the most significant malware outbreak in three years. McAfee Avert Labs reported on Tuesday that more than 500,000 detections of a Trojan horse
ANN ARBOR - CrimeCog Technologies has relocated its corporate headquarters from Milford to Ann Arbor to give the growing security company access to more technical employees and business resources. The company, founded in 2003 by current chairman Tim Daley, is privately held and has additional offices and operations in Texas, Colorado, Illinois, Washington DC and
AUBURN HILLS ? A tour of the Combined Regional Emergency Services Training facility at Oakland Community College will be featured May 15 at the next meeting of the Motor City ISSA chapter. The CREST center is the result of ideas from local fire, police, EMS agencies and Oakland Community College. The concept of a training
DETROIT - The March 25th InfraGard half day meeting, which focused on public health preparedness and business continuity, drew more than 50 participants and generated a very positive overall response on the speakers, topic and value of the session. Excellent feedback was also gathered for use in planning future sessions. Users are seeing increased activity
CHICAGO - Returning to the Midwest this spring is Chicago SecureWorld on May 21-22 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. The Chicago event will draw renowned Security Practitioners, Senior Executives and Government Leaders, Leading Security Analysts/Consultants and more. The keynote lineup for this year?s event includes: Johnny Long, Professional Hacker, Author & Researcher speaking
TROY - The MiRSA will be meeting on May 8 immediately after the Workforce Development Committee meeting. The general WFD meeting starts at 8:30 am and the MiRSA meeting will start around 9:30 am. The WFD committee meets on the second Thursday of every other month; this will be our meeting schedule from now on,
GRAND RAPIDS ? The Michigan Homeland Security Consortium has elected a new board for 2008 that includes a lot of holdovers as well as some new faces. Officers include: Chairman - Keith Brophy, RCM Technologies President- Tom Hines, SecureMatrix Secretary- Steve Potter, Patriot Services. Potter is new to this post. Board members include: Melanie de
TROY - The team of Juan Velasquez, Ufuoma Edevbie, Zamira Aliko, and Mike Alsip won the After Hours Consulting Challenge held April 11-12 at the Walsh College Troy campus. Ernst & Young sponsored the Challenge for the best information security business case presentation. Four teams competed for bragging rights and prizes. Acting as information security