WASHINGTON DC - The person who triggered the furor over the National Security Agency's spying activities has given a tentative thumb's up to plans to change some of the agency's controversial methods. In a statement released Wednesday through the American Civil Liberties Union, Edward Snowden called plans to rein in the National Security Agency's bulk
SAN FRANCISCO - The November data breach that affected as many as 110 million Target customers could have been stopped in its tracks, according to a story published Thursday by Bloomberg. Speaking with more than ten former Target employees and eight people with knowledge of the hack, Bloomberg said that Target already had in place
BIRMINGHAM - The lesson to be learned from the content of Snowden?s documents released to date is that the NSA has built a global capability to execute on a plan of information dominance for intelligence gathering. Ostensibly to collect enough communications meta data and content to deter, disrupt, and destroy terrorists and their plans, the
SAN FRANCISCO - An ongoing investigation has revealed that a Vietnamese man posing as a private investigator was able to dupe Experian in to compromising data which could equate to millions of customer records. Last year, Krebs on Security published a story documenting the tale of 24-year-old Vietnamese national Hieu Minh Ngo, the founder of
SAN FRANCISCO - The German computer security and antivirus detection company G Data Security has alleged that the Russian government is behind the newly detected malware known as "Uroburos." G Data bases its case for Russian government involvement on the complexity of the malware and the presence of Cyrillic words in the malware sample. G
MARQUETTE - The Michigan Cyber Awareness Luncheon Series 2014 will serve as a follow up to the SOLD OUT Michigan Cyber Summit 2013 hosted last fall by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder. This series will provide updates to the Michigan Cyber Initiative designed for Michigan citizens, education, business and industry. Presentations will focus on a comprehensive,
LANSING - David Behen, CIO for the state of Michigan, was named as a 2014 Premier 100 IT Leaders honoree by IDG's Computerworld at its annual leadership conference on Tuesday. This year?s recognition program spotlights 100 leaders from both the technology and business sides of companies for their exceptional technology leadership and innovative approaches to
EAST LANSING - A team of computer scientists in the Michigan State University College of Engineering have built the first three-dimensional model of a human fingerprint, which will not only help today?s fingerprint-matching technology do its job better, but could eventually lead to improvements in security. What Anil Jain, his MSU colleagues and research collaborator
SAN FRANCISCO - Results from TechTarget?s 2013 annual salary and careers survey, which looked at IT security professionals and IT personnel who spend their time on security, shows that total compensation (salaries, bonuses and commissions) is holding steady. More than half of those surveyed reported raises in 2013, and close to one-third received bonuses. The
DEARBORN ? ISACA Detroit will host a chapter meeting on March 19 that looks at how to Implement an IT Risk Management Methodology. RSVP by March 15. Panel Speakers include: Brenda Karl, CISA, CGEIT, CRISC, QSA Craig Kelley, MBA, CISA Jamshid Sadaghiyani CPA, CISA, CRISC David Flynn CPA, CISA The pre dinner topic is Career