BIRMINGHAM - Let this be the day that you change your password practices. On December 24th, 2011, Anonymous, the group of hackers that includes anyone who chooses to adapt that label, announced that they had broken into the servers of the defense intelligence organization Stratfor. Despite Anonymous? belief in a vast military-industrial-government conspiracy, Stratfor is
WATERFORD - Single, childless women in their 20s are more likely than their male counterparts to graduate from college, reports Inforum in a study called "Women & the Workplace," a new installment of an ongoing research partnership to examine trends affecting women in the second decade of the 21st century. Maxine Lauer, CEO for Sphere
BLOOMFIELD HILLS ? Taligence, which provides HR and employee consulting services to small and mid-sized companies, has joined The Business Improvement Team. ?Joining the Business Improvement Team will allow us to provide an abundance of resources in order to better serve our clients, along with being associated with a tremendous group of professional consultants,? said
GRANDVILLE ? Cloud computing, agile methodology, tablet computers, mobile applications, and IT security are among the top technology trends for 2012, says Dawn Simpson, VP of Market Development for Trivalent, an IT services and data management company. Trivalent compiled its top ten technology trends list from a variety of sources including Forrester Research, Gartner, JP
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WASHINGTON DC - A group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of America's top business-lobbying group and gained access to everything stored on its systems, including information about its three million members, several people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. The break-in at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is one
BIRMINGHAM ? Those that support critical infrastructure like smart grids have begun to realize that they have minimal security in place to counter targeted cyber attacks. NitroSecurity's Eric Knapp talks about how to secure these critical infrastructures in the first segment of a new webinar series called Cyber Defense Update brought to you by IT-Harvest's
LANSING ? A dozen Michigan business incubators will split $6 million in grants from the Michigan Strategic Fund to help launch and grow start-up companies throughout the state. The biggest winners were Wayne State?s TechTown - $875,000 ? Michigan Technological University - $750,000 ? and Oakland County?s Automation Alley - $625,000. Other recipients in order
LANSING - Work to establish Port Lansing into a cargo and logistics focused Aerotropolis moved forward Wednesday with the Michigan Strategic Fund designating the city of Lansing, DeWitt Charter Township and the Capital Regional Airport Authority as the state?s second Next Michigan Development Corporation. As a Next Michigan Development Corporation, Port Lansing will be able
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation would operate a new $3 million venture capital matching fund for the state's technology companies under a proposal outlined Wednesday to the Michigan Strategic Fund Board. Mike Psarouthakis, vice president of business acceleration for the MEDC, said initial proposed funding would total $3 million, but the hope is