DETROIT ? Foreign visitors departing from Detroit Metropolitan Airport are now required to provide their two index finger scans and hold for a photo as part of a pilot program to test and evaluate an automated biometric exit process. The new anti-terrorist security screens are part of an aggressive program rolled out Friday by the
TROY ? More than 1,000 eight grade students in the Troy School District found out how easy it is for hackers to harvest their personal information during an Internet Security career fair presentation sponsored by Walsh College. Brian Gawne, vice president of Olympus Security Group, in a 20-minute talk given four times on Jan. 12-13,
TROY - The United States Department of Defense is seeking graduate students from Walsh College who are interested in a grant funded scholarship program for concentrated studies in the Walsh College information assurance program - a concentrated Security curriculum. Individuals must be admitted to the MSIA or another graduate program and specialize in information assurance.
SEATTLE ? A Romania-based security service provider said that a patch issued by Microsoft this month fails to resolve all of the security issues involving the ActiveX control in Windows, which could flood PCs with spyware. GeCad said that the patch has not addressed at least one weakness that could allow a hackers to exploit
SOUTHFIELD ? Computer Associates International?s incoming CEO John Swainson will reorganize the company into autonomous business units that will have more control over their development and marketing spending and more leeway in pursuing acquisitions. The new structure will seek out more acquisitions to build out its product portfolio, Swainson said. The new structure will "ensure
SOUTHFIELD ? Computer Associates International announced Monday that its eTrust SiteMinder 6.0 has been approved by the U.S. General Services Administration under its E-Gov E-Authentication Initiative, an open standards solution for the federal government. The announcement means eTrust SiteMinder can now be used by federal agencies taking part in the E-Gov E-Authentication Initiative. What the
WASHINGTON DC ? Federal judge Michael Chertoff has been nominated to succeed Tom Ridge as the nation?s second Secretary of Homeland Security. Chertoff was a surprise pick to fill the slot left when former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik withdrew his nomination because of immigration problems with a family housekeeper. But Chertoff carries his
PITTSBURGH ? US-CERT has issued another eSecurity warning this time regarding the multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows that could be exploited by malicious code referred to as Phel. Systems Affected include Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, and Server 2003; Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x; and other Windows programs that use MSHTML. Reports indicate that one
SANTA MONICA, CA. - Are you at risk of losing your privacy? Answer the following three simple questions: Do you shop or bank online? Do you use an ?always on? high-speed Internet connection? Do you connect to the Internet from your home computer? If you answered ?yes? to any of these questions ? then you
SOUTHFIELD - There?s a dangerous communication gap in today?s enterprises ? Networks Operations and Security Operations are working in independent vacuums. This gap, rather than closing, is only growing larger and more hazardous. As budgets face resource squeezes and groups war for people and monies, companies are turning their own strengths, their people, against themselves.