SOUTHFIELD - The Internet's sweep through the world of business, government, non-profits and academia has been dramatic, but it's far from over. As the number of unique users who need access and applications that need to be developed and maintained increase, IT organizations are racing to meet the demand. However, information security is nonnegotiable as
TROY - Nan Poulios, director of the Walsh College Information Security Center, provides an update on this Security channel podcast on what's happening at the IAC. Walsh is offering security internships, developing a new IT Society, developing Global security links and planning four rounds of CISSP training. You can hear the update in this special
SAN FRANCISCO - More than half of IT professionals plan to increase their spending on security in 2008, whether that means more resources, more products or more services. A survey of IT professionals conducted by InsightExpress for Cisco Systems found that three out of five IT professionals plan to increase IT spending this year, with
SAN JOSE - To make ethanol, you want to make vinegar first, according to ZeaChem. The biofuel start-up, which has moved from Colorado to Silicon Valley, says it has come up with a method of making cellulosic ethanol that results in close to 40 percent more fuel per ton of wood chips than competing processes.
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Mac users that run both Mac OS X Leopard and Windows operating systems are now able to protect their environment better with Symantec Corp.'s new Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for Mac. The software features vulnerability protection technology and anti-virus for Mac users running Boot Camp or Windows virtualization software, which are programs
REDMOND, Wa. - Web browser updates in development from Microsoft and Mozilla will include better built-in protection against phishing, viruses, and other maladies. At its Mix conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Microsoft demonstrated IE 8 for the first time publicly. Larry Dignan at ZDNet points out that IE 8 will include better malware protection
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Researchers have found some holes in Google's Android SDK that could make the software vulnerable to hack attacks. But because commercial Android devices are still months away from hitting store shelves, there's no need to panic. Core Security published an alert on its Web site on Tuesday stating that it had found
SAN JOSE - Most mobile phone users don't have security software installed, even though three-quarters of them are aware that malware can infect mobile devices via Bluetooth, according to the "Online Wellbeing" survey commissioned by security-as-a-service provider F-Secure. The report was based on surveys of Web users aged 20 to 40 in the U.S., Canada,
WASHINGTON - One of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's most prominent Real ID cheerleaders made a more timid than usual push on Tuesday for states to adopt the controversial identification card standards. Stewart Baker, the department's assistant secretary for policy, has touted what he perceives as the privacy-protective, identity theft-preventive features of the congressionally
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Microsoft and Yahoo are holding informal merger discussions, marking a shift from the radio silence that previously existed between the two companies, according to a source familiar with the talks. A lot has changed over the past two weeks, compared with February 1 when Microsoft issued its unsolicited buyout bid for Yahoo,