GRAND RAPIDS - Larry Shattuck, a Midwest InfraGard board member, reports on the presentation give Nov. 5 by Paul Hightower, Deputy Director of the Department of Homeland Security. Hightower was the keynote speaker for a Michigan InfraGard event at Grand Valley State University. He examined the tough question of where does America stand in the
LANSING - Instead of paying the maligned services tax, businesses would instead tack a surcharge onto their Michigan Business Tax liability under legislation that passed contentiously late Thursday. But House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford Twp.) said after the vote he's leaving the door open to possible changes in the bill headed up by a proposal
LANSING - Former Michigan Public Service Commission members Laura Chappelle and David Svanda have joined 36 of their counterparts from across the nation calling on state and federal lawmakers and regulators not to return monopoly control of power markets to the utilities. The letter, noting a number of reports showing customers saving money or power
SAN FRANCISCO, Ca. - If Mac users thought the Trojan discovered last week was a one-off, they'll need to think again. Security firm F-Secure has discovered 32 variants of it, but claims about its powers have been wildly overstated, according to experts. "Looks like the Mac Trojan we posted about last week was not an
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Research sponsored by Symantec has found that while 91 percent of IT organizations carry out full testing of their disaster recovery plans, almost half of those tests fail. The "Symantec Disaster Recovery Research 2007" report was based on a survey of 1,088 IT professionals in large organizations, conducted by Dynamic Markets
PALO ALTO, Ca. - To help companies better manage and consolidate key management for encrypted devices deployed in enterprise and mid-sized businesses, Hewlett-Packard announced the availability of the HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager. Secure Key Manager is a centralized, hardened security appliance that helps data center managers improve privacy compliance and reduce the risk of
BOULDER, Co. - The new report about protecting smaller businesses' from security threats from its growing mobile workforce predicts a perfect storm is building in the IT security world. With companies growing and adding more remote and mobile workers, IT departments are finding it difficult to keep pace in staffing; while, at the same time,
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - It wasn't long after Google announced its long-anticipated mobile plans this week that a debate emerged about the prospective security of the project's Linux-based platform. Can the open-source model for the platform, now known as Android, produce secure code? CNET News.Com asked. Will phones based on Android, dubbed "Gphones" by many,
WASHINGTON - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, Aviation Safety Program, has awarded approximately $246,000 to the University of Michigan for a project called Proactive System Design and Evaluation: Supporting Pilot-Automation Interaction Through Empirical and Modeling Analyses. The award will foster close collaboration with and facilitate the exchange of ideas and information among researchers at NASA,
FERNDALE - Tener Technologies has achieved Select Certification from Cisco, a new level, which recognizes Cisco channel partners whose primary focus is on the small and medium-sized business market. To earn Select Certification, Tenertech fulfilled the training and exam requirements of the new SMB Specialization, demonstrating that the company has invested in achieving the sales