DETROIT - On May 21, President Bush signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, a law designed, in part, to prohibit employers from discriminating against employees and applicants for employment on the basis of their genetic information. Part of the reason for the enactment of GINA was to enable individuals to take advantage of
SAN DIEGO - ID Analytics, which providers on-demand identity intelligence, has released the findings of its survey that analyzed the criminal behavior patterns associated with the misuse of identities stolen from the workplace by employees. The ID Analytics' study, "Analysis of Internal Data Theft", sought to expose how, where and when employees misused data stolen
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - In Symantec Corp.'s July 2008 edition of its monthly spam report, one of its findings noted that hackers were using personal e-mail accounts to scam contacts in a user's address book. The twist was that the e-mail came from a user's hacked webmail account and was sent to their personal list
BOSTON - Spam is on the increase again, and Sophos' latest spam trends report shows that only one in 28 e-mails can be considered legitimate. The rest are like the Vikings in that classic Monty Python skit: Spam, spam, spam. While there have been increases and decreases over the last couple of years, with spam
SAN JOSE, Ca. - Cyber-criminals have become organized and bare more than a passing resemblance to legitimate business today, according to Finjan's latest trends report from its Malicious Code Research Center. The report looked at the trend of cyber-crime during the second quarter of 2008, and it looks like cyber-criminals have gone up-scale. Finjan's research,
LANSING - Each of our companies received and effectively used multi-millions in government-sponsored R&D grants to fund the research, development and most importantly, commercialization of breakthrough technology innovations that have led to our business success in Michigan. Mark Clevey, a nationally recognized expert in these grants, was an instrumental part of this effort. Our interest
TORONTO, Ontario - Trend Micro has reported an increase in the number of employees who admit to visiting social networking sites on the Internet while connected to the corporate network, according to the results of a study that explores corporate computer users' perceptions of and experiences with security threats. The study, which surveyed 1600 corporate
LANSING - Five years ago, Michigan began to approach the problem of underage drinking in a different way - vertically rather than horizontally. A law went into effect on July 1, 2003, requiring the issuance of vertical (portrait) style driver?s licenses or personal identification cards to individuals under the age of 21. As a result
LANSING - Jim Barrett, who retired on June 30 after 32 years as president of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, says Michigan is going through the most challenging economic period he has seen in that time, but is optimistic about its future. Although businesses continue to chafe under what many see as excessive tax and
CHICAGO - CDW Corp. has released the results of their survey of business IT professionals that revealed a disparity between the most common IT security headaches and businesses' deployment of solutions that could relieve them. The report, called "User-Proof IT Security Report," interviewed over 300 IT professionals at companies with more than 100 employees, focusing