ANN ARBOR - Merit Network signed an agreement Wednesday with QuadMetrics to provide the company's suite of security and risk assessment tools to Merit Members, as well as research and educational institutions throughout the country. The new services help organizations take a proactive approach to managing cybersecurity risks on the basis of large scale data
LIVONIA - Cybersecurity for vehicles represents a critical topic and important growth area for the automotive industry. On Feb. 17, The Center For Automotive Research brings together a panel to discuss the threats and present on strategies and methods for effectively managing cybersecurity for the ?networked computers on wheels? that automobiles are increasingly becoming. The
SAN FRANCISCO - People with Android smartphones and tablets running older versions of the mobile operating system - around 60 percent of all Android users - are going to have to live with a security flaw Google has decided not to fix. A known security bug in the default, unbranded Web browser for Android 4.3
NEW YORK - Tapping a link on your smartphone to watch a new music video might sound harmless, but it got one 12-year-old girl from Tennessee into trouble last year. Instead of a video, the preteen -- whose name has not been disclosed because of her age -- had unwittingly installed malicious software that downloaded
WASHINGTON DC - Cybersecurity reforms are now a top priority of President Barack Obama. Whether Congress will care remains an open issue. During his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, the president barely tipped his hat to major cybersecurity reform proposals he introduced in speeches last week. They included streamlining the current patchwork
DETROIT - Online Tech is hosting free Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery workshops in Indianapolis on January 22 and in Detroit on February 19. The sessions will feature three industry experts who will guide attendees through BCDR planning strategies and real-world scenario exercises. Instructors, who have more than 60 years of combined IT experience, are:
LANSING - You've probably heard the phrase, "Failure is the key to success." But are security professionals really learning from their mistakes? As identity theft and online risks keep growing, is our industry rising to the challenge or repeating the miscues of the past? While security technology is improving, the bad guys also have access
WASHINGTON DC - The head of the FBI says the hackers responsible for Sony's data breach "got sloppy," which enabled forensics teams to unmask the culpable country. "The Interview" is screening at hundreds theaters across the United States, though not at the thousands as originally planned, CNET News.Com reported. FBI chief James Comey says that
NEW YORK - Morgan Stanley, one of the world's largest financial services firms, revealed Monday its customer information was breached. But it wasn't the result of determined hackers or sophisticated email attacks. Instead, Morgan Stanley said it was an employee who stole data from more than 350,000 customer accounts. The move is a wake-up call
SAN FRANCISCO - Players around the world are now breathing a sigh of relief as they settle into some long overdue gaming during the holiday break. Starting around December 24, two of the largest online gaming services, Sony's PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live, were disrupted in a high-profile denial-of-service attack, which was resolved a