WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. government's controversial plan to outfit all Americans with uniform electronic identification cards--officially known as Real ID--may be on its deathbed, opponents of the program charged last week. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has long said that starting as soon as May 2008, and definitely after May 2013, it will
CUPERTINO, Ca. - What a McAfee security expert calls a "nasty" piece of malware, Puper, has hit Apple Macintosh computers with a thud. "This is the first real malware that we have seen in the Mac," said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager, McAfee Avert Labs. "It is written by the same group that
KALAMAZOO - The Greenleaf Companies have hired Daniel Weston, recently retired Chief of Public Safety from the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, as Executive Vice President and Director of Corporate Security. He is expected to begin his new duties on or before December 1st. Greenleaf Trust employs more than 1,000 people, hosts more than 1
SOUTHFIELD ? Tom Heagarty, a CISSP and CISA certificates holder, will discuss successful security monitoring programs in large environments, the November 15 program for Motor City ISSA. Deploying the right security technology in the right places is tricky enough - building the infrastructure to support that technology and get the most out of it is
NEW YORK - RedSky Technologies this week launched E911 Anywhere, a centralized 911 call management service for enterprise organizations with IP telephony systems that will save significant money and precious time when routing 911 calls to emergency responders. E911 Anywhere centralizes the process of tracking the location of all endpoints connected to an IP telephony
ANN ARBOR ? Spam filter provider SpamStopsHere has detected a new spam tactic in which MP3 files are used to promote stocks. In the first multi-media spam, spammers have begun attaching MP3 files which are named after popular recording artists and songs. After a recipient has opened the attachment, an electronically enhanced voice delivers a
WASHINGTON DC - A new Senate bill would protect not only telephone companies from lawsuits claiming illegal cooperation with the National Security Agency. It would retroactively immunize e-mail providers, search engines, Internet service providers and instant-messaging services too. The broad language appears in new legislation that a Senate committee approved by a 13-to-2 vote on
SAN JOSE, Ca. - Antivirus specialist Symantec has joined a security organization alongside Microsoft, despite having previously come to very public blows with the software giant over its willingness to share security information on Vista. Symantec and Microsoft announced at the RSA Conference Europe 2007 that they will join the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence
BURLINGTON, Ma. - A global market survey from unified threat management solution makers Astaro Corp. contends that 70 per cent of IT professionals surveyed plan on increasing their spending on network security in the next fiscal year. Of the 800 Astaro channel partners, resellers and end users participated in the study and of those surveyed,
GRAND RAPIDS ? Paul Hightower, Deputy Director of the Department of Homeland Security, will discuss on Nov. 6 at Grand Valley State University the important question of where does America stand in the protection of its critical infrastructure? He?ll also discuss how much ground are we gaining on eliminating vulnerabilities and improving response capabilities? Are