WASHINGTON DC - Teri Takai will be leaving her post as the Defense Department's chief information officer May 3. She submitted her resignation to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Monday. A replacement hasn't yet been named. Takai has served as the DoD's CIO since November 2010. While in that position, she was the principal
GRAND RAPIDS - Technology is something that every business today depends upon in one way or another. The Internet has opened up a new era of connectivity and communication for both our professional and personal lives. These great benefits & advancements, however, have also come with new risks & privacy concerns that are greater than
ANN ARBOR - Online Tech has been recognized as one of the 20 Most Promising Enterprise Security Companies in the country by CIO Review. Winners of this award were selected by a blue ribbon judging panel that included the CIOs and CEOs of public companies, industry analysts from respected research firms, and the editorial board
WASHINGTON DC - Defense Department CIO Teri Takai is leaving her post, effective Friday, FedScoop has confirmed. Takai was the Michigan CIO under former Gov. Jennifer Granholm. A source close to Takai confirmed her planned departure, but declined to provide additional details. Takai has served as the Pentagon?s CIO since 2010, and has managed the
SAN FRANCISCO - Researchers have identified more malware at the Google Play store that secretly harnesses users' devices to perform the arduous computational process of mining for bitcoins. The malware, dubbed BadLepricon, was found masquerading as wallpaper apps that had hundreds of installs each, according to Lookout, a mobile security firm. Google promptly removed five
SAN FRANCISCO - The Heartbleed Internet security flaw has proved so bad that it just might wind up doing some good. For two weeks now, IT experts around the world have scrambled -- with mixed success -- to come up with a fix before hackers exploited the bug to attack vulnerable servers. Corralling Heartbleed has
GRAND RAPIDS ? Registration closed May 2 for the 2014 Great Lakes Homeland Security Training Conference & Expo from May 13-15 at the DeVos Place in downtown Grand Rapids at the special rate of $250. If a regional board is covering your registration fee, please contact your regional chair for additional instructions prior to registering.
SAN FRANCISCO - Arts and crafts retail chain Michaels Stores said Thursday that two separate security breaches at point-of-sale terminals last year at its US stores and Aaron Brothers subsidiary may have exposed nearly 3 million credit and payment cards. The Michaels breach, which occurred between May 8, 2013, and January 27, 2014, may have
ANN ARBOR - The theme of this year's MCRCon cybersecurity conference in Ypsilanti - Are You Safe in the Internet of Things? - focuses on one of today's most compelling cybersecurity issues: the Internet of Things. Everything seems to be connected to the Internet. Phones, televisions, appliances, vehicles, eyewear, powerplants, security systems, and more are
PARIS - If you bought La Cie's Little Big Drive or anything else on the company's retail site, you're likely at risk. LaCie is the latest major retailer and tech company finding itself to be the target of a major security breach by unknown assailants. The French hardware company confirmed in a statement on Tuesday