LIVONIA - September 16 ISACA Detroit Chapter Meeting Pre-Dinner Topic will focus on the Internet of Things and Information Assurance, while the after-dinner topic will be Demonstrating Information Security Program Effectiveness. The Pre-Dinner presentation will be made by Keith Wilson, Systems Engineer, Lancope After-Dinner speaker is Doug Copley, Beaumont Health Systems. 4:30 - 5:00 Registration
WASHINGTON DC - Many people rely on security questions like "What's your mother's maiden name?" to protect their personal information online, but hackers are getting better at finding the answers. Case in point: the hackers who raided US Government's Internal Revenue Service data systems. Those attackers were much more successful at answering security questions than
WASHIGTON DC - The federal government announced Thursday that the total number of people affected by cyberattacks on the US government's personnel office was more than 22 million. The agency said 21.5 million Social Security numbers were stolen from one source and 4.2 million from another. Both attacks were announced in June. Some people were hit with
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple is shaking up the way it confirms whether you're the rightful owner of your iOS device or Mac. Built directly into iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, a system called "two-factor authentication" will add an extra layer of security that can keep your Apple account more secure, even if someone
GRAND RAPIDS - Trivalent Group is hosting a free workshop designed to help businesses prevent loss of data in a technology disruption on July 30 at Trivalent Group Headquarters in Grandville. Trivalent Group is a leading cloud and managed services, IT support, business continuity and network services company in Michigan. The free workshop, BIASurvivor (Be
MILWAUKEE - A 27-year-old suburban Milwaukee man created an Internet site used as a worldwide malware marketplace that was shut down Wednesday after an investigation by 20 law enforcement agencies across the globe, federal documents filed Wednesday show. The site, known as Darkode.com, was seized by federal authorities Tuesday. A dozen people, including Daniel Placek
AUBURN HILLS - On Thursday, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' Embedded System Quality Engineering team released a Technical Service Bulletin for a software update that offers customers improved vehicle electronic security and communications system enhancements. Similar to a smartphone or tablet, vehicle software can require updates for improved security protection to reduce the potential risk of unauthorized
GRAND RAPIDS - There is one week left for emergency management and homeland security officials to join more than 1,200 attendees for the 2015 Great Lakes Homeland Security Training Conference and Expo at the DeVos Place in Grand Rapids from May 5-7. Registration closes at 5 p.m. April 24. Under the banner of ?one team,?
TROY ? Despite what is said publicly, the United States does not have the capabilities to defend the nation from a cyberattack launched by a foreign government, or organized crime, Brigadier General Michael A. Stone, the assistant adjutant general, Army National Guard, told a large audience at Walsh College Wednesday night. Stone, the keynote at
SOUTHFIELD - An advanced flash storage cloud environment enabling companies to process heavy workloads at faster speeds was introduced this week by Secure-24, a provider of application hosting and managed cloud services. Secure-24 has invested heavily in the new flash storage architecture and has implemented it across its cloud data centers in Michigan and Nevada.
