WASHINTON DC - Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden reportedly gained access to classified data after persuading several co-workers to reveal their passwords. As many as 20 to 25 workers at a National Security Agency base in Hawaii revealed their login credentials to Snowden, allowing him to obtain some of the documents that he eventually leaked
LANSING - Jeff Holyfield, who joined Governor Rick Snyder's staff just eight months ago as communications director, has moved to the vacant post as spokesperson for the Lottery Bureau. Prior to joining Snyder's administration, Holyfield had been communications director for Consumers Energy and before that had a long run as a reporter for The Associated
LANSING - Several key metrics to watch when it comes to the health of a governor's re-election prospects show Governor Rick Snyder is in better shape for re-election in 2014 than former Governor John Engler was for his first re-election bid in 1994 or former Governor Jennifer Granholm was in 2006, according to a polling
DETROIT ? If you want to get a chance to check out Google Glass, the search engine?s new wearable computer, you can do so Nov. 16-17 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Since May, Google has been beta testing Glass, which will display on-the-go maps, voice searches, video calls, photo sharing and more. More
SAN FRANCISCO - Internet Bug Bounty challenges you to hack your way into such critical Web platforms as OpenSSL, PHP, Perl, and Apache for the chance to earn as much as $5,000. Sponsored by Microsoft and Facebook, one challenge even invites you to hack the Internet itself, meaning finding a bug that affects a wide
GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan Purchasing Managers index posted strong growth in October, lead by the growing in new orders. The survey, compiled by Brian G. Long, director of Supply Management Research in the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University, showed the following results: The index of business improvement, called new
DETROIT - The new Invest Again campaign is driven by scientists and entrepreneurs to protect and promote increased federal funding for the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. The campaign will put scientists front and center in national media to explain the most important issues facing our nation, and how to move the United
EAST LANSING - More than a dozen Michigan State University student volunteers from the Women in Computing Group will be teaching high school girls on an event November 16 how to create their own websites, games and animations ? and example of how this MSU group works to recruit, support and retain women in computing
NEW YORK ? On the first day of its Initial Public Offering, shares of Twitter soared to close almost 73 percent above its offering price generating a market cap of about $25 billion ? for a company not yet profitable. Twitter priced its initial public offering Wednesday night at $26 a share. The stock debuted
DETROIT ? Cyber Security was the hot topic discussed Saturday on the Internet Advisor as heard on WJR 760 AM Radio. Birmingham cyber security expert Richard Stiennon discuss threats to SCADA control systems as well as the proliferation of ransomware on the Net. The podcast of that show is now available. Also on the show