SOUTHFIELD - A new Storm Worm virus is attacking this time spoofing the theme of love, just in time for Valentine's Day. Emails with links to a bait website hosting the malware have been sent in bulk numbers for the past weeks, warns MicroWorld Technologies. The subject lines are mushy - Eternity of Your Love?,
ROYAL OAK ? Intelligent Connections will host four lunch and learn presentations in February ? three in Michigan and one in Ohio ? that will show attendees how they can discover, monitor and protect sensitive web data using Websense Content Protection Suite. Websense Intelligent Content Protection is based on best-in-class products and hosted solutions that
SOUTHFIELD - If your organization is still relying on the same old authentication and access control schemas and failing to keep pace with current technologies, it's only a matter of time before a breach occurs. CA has scheduled two evening mixers in February to show you how to keep the bad guys out of your
DETROIT ? Michigan InfraGard has elected a new board for 2008 with former President Dan Lohrmann, chief information security officer for the state of Michigan, passing the leadership mantel to Rod Kinghorn, his counterpart at General Motors. Lorhmann moves to chairman, with John Montville of Nationwide Security coming on the board as vice president; Beau
WYOMING ? The risks involved with entrusting business processes and data handling to third parties is the topic of the Jan. 18 meeting of the Grand Rapids chapter of ISSA scheduled for Steelcase University. Rebecca Herold of Rebecca Herold & Associates will explain to attendees how to minimize the business risk of outsourcing data management.
TROY ? Walsh College is hosting informational meetings in January for students interested in applying for the Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarships. Application deadline is Feb. 18. Eligible: Undergraduate and graduate students admitted to the Walsh College Master of Science in Information Assurance program or another graduate program specializing in information assurance. Dates: January
SOUTHFIELD - It may come in an email asking you to check out a movie file. Or it may seek to push its way to your computer from malicious websites. In both cases a codec will be offered in the guise of helping you watch a streaming video (a steamy one on many occasions), but
ANN ARBOR ? Spam accounted for 95 percent of email traffic in 2007, including attack strategies not seen in previous years, so says SpamStopsHere, an email filtering solution created by Greenview Data. Spammers were in full throttle last year developing new spamming techniques. Phishing attacks rose dramatically, worms threatened millions, and overall spam levels hit
SAN JOSE - While unified communications and security may be two of the hottest topics when it comes to the overall networking industry, they're not the only growth areas expected in 2008. "The first one that we're thinking a lot about these days ... is the data center. The data center, the network as the
SOUTHFIELD ? Jennifer Bowden, manager of the Information Security Regional Skills Alliance, will discuss her security organization during the January meeting of the Motor City Chapter of the ISSA. The history of the Michigan RSA initiative will be presented along with an outline of the major projects underway currently. These projects include a security awareness