ANN ARBOR - Cybersecurity expert Richard Stiennon, founder of IT-Harvest, provides details on Apple's plans to search iPhones for pictures of child abuse and if found report them to authorities. Privacy advocates are up in arms even as Apple assured them this week that police authorities would not be given access to iPhone. Richard also
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple last week said it will refuse any government demands to expand its new photo-scanning technology beyond the current plan of using it only to detect CSAM (child sexual abuse material). Apple has faced days of criticism from security experts, privacy advocates, and privacy-minded users over the plan it announced Thursday, in
SAN FRANCISCO - According to the recent Atlas VPN team findings, 51 percent of exploits sold on underground cybercriminal forums are for Microsoft products. The constantly growing number of published vulnerabilities could mean that the impact of cyberattacks will increase as well. The numbers are based on Trend Micro Research about the rise and imminent fall of
SAN FRANCISCO - It's a doozy of a digital spying case. Security researchers found evidence of attempted or successful installation of Pegasus, software made by an Israeli cybersecurity company, on 37 phones of activists, journalists and businesspeople. They appear to have been the targets of potentially intense secret surveillance by software intended to pursue criminals and terrorists.
ANN ARBOR - In mid July, the Russian-based hacker sites that have triggered a series of ransomware and intelligence gathering hacks targeting US businesses and government went dark. The question is why? Was it the Russian government bringing them down or the work of a US agency? Dan Lohrmann, former Chief Information Security Officer for
LANSING - Global leaders want to carve out specific areas of critical infrastructure to be protected under international agreements from cyber attacks. But where does that leave others? "There are ‘four or five steps you could take that could significantly mitigate this risk,’ Falk said. These are patching, multifactor authentication and all the stuff in
ANN ARBOR - Gary Erickson, the Managing Partner of Executive Search Partners, said he has 20 jobs openings now for Chief Information Officers and other top tech executive positions, including one in Michigan that pays upwards of $1 million a year. Those jobs are listed at the ESP LinkedIn page. Executive Search Partners was formed
WASHINGTON DC - The Biden administration on Monday blamed China for the cyberattack on the Microsoft Exchange email server software earlier this year. It said hackers linked to China's Ministry of State Security exploited vulnerabilities to "compromise tens of thousands of computers and networks worldwide." Emails were stolen from a vast array of organizations in the Microsoft
SOUTHFIELD — Apex Digital Solutions announced the expansion of its Aegis security services portfolio through the addition of two key security partners: CritialStart, a market-leading Managed Detection and Response provider based in Plano, Texas, as well as Antigen Security, an incident response and recovery engineering firm based in Holt, Michigan. “We aim to empower our customers
ANN ARBOR - Cybersecurity professional Richard Stiennon suggests several ways that President Biden can respond proportionately to the continued Russian ransomware and cyber hacks of US military and government networks. Those including outing Russian Premier Vladimir Putin's billions of dollars stolen from the Russian people, freezing Russian oligarch's financial assets and even shutting down Russian
