DETROIT - The Michigan Cyber Patriot program, that works with grade school students to make the cyber security savvy, has placed a team in the national finals, where they will compete against 11 other teams from around the country. Michigan Cyber Patriot Founder Tamars Shoemaker joins Matt Roush and Mike Brennan on MITech TV to
BEIJING - A Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed GoldFactory has been attributed to the development of highly sophisticated banking trojans, including a previously undocumented iOS malware called GoldPickaxe that's capable of harvesting identity documents, facial recognition data, and intercepting SMS. "The GoldPickaxe family is available for both iOS and Android platforms," Singapore-headquartered Group-IB said in an extensive report shared with
WASHINGTON DC - The FBI took down a botnet of small office/home office (SOHO) routers used by Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) to proxy malicious traffic and to target the United States and its allies in spearphishing and credential theft attacks. This network of hundreds of Ubiquiti Edge OS routers infected with Moobot
LONDON - Countries led by Britain, France and the United States and tech firms including Google, Microsoft and Meta on Tuesday signed a joint statement recognising the need for more action to tackle malicious use of cyber spying tools. The declaration was signed by 35 nations at a conference hosted by both Britain and France
TROY - FutureCon Events brings high-level Cyber Security Training discovering cutting-edge security approaches, managing risk in the ever-changing threat of the cybersecurity workforce. Join a panel of C-level executives who have effectively mitigated the risk of Cyber Attacks. Educating C-suite executives and CISOs (chief information security officers) on the global cybercrime epidemic, and how to build
ANN ARBOR - Cybersecurity expert Richard Stiennon returns to provide the latest headlines including how Russian hackers gained access at the administrative level to Microsoft 365, the biggest email system in the world. Hackers also brought down the Swedish government's payroll service in a ransomware attack. It's still not operational. Watch this video interview to
DETROIT — University of Detroit Mercy received a $497,080 award from the United States Department of Defense to sustain its work in establishing the Metro Detroit Regional Vehicle Cybersecurity Institute, a regional cybersecurity consortium. This follows a $1.12-million award from the DoD in 2020 that the University used to establish the Metro Detroit Regional Virtual Vehicle
NEW YORK - Americans largely understand the risks of using the internet – identity theft, spam, phishing, loss of personal or financial information, and more. Yet a relatively small percentage are taking steps recommended by experts to protect their data, such as using password managers to set strong passwords or pursuing credit monitoring after a
DETROIT - Cyberpatriot is a national program that teaches grade-school students not only how to safely navigate the internet, but also provides them with the basic training they can use to launch cybersecurity careers. In Michigan, the program was started about a decade ago by Tamara Shoemaker. She joins Matt Roush and Mike Brennan in
SOUTHFIELD - This is your chapter and we need members' input into how to make this chapter better, what we have done, and what we plan to do this year. In addition, we will have a guest speaker with a topic to be announced. Come join us virtually. Date and time Thursday, January 18 ·
