WASHINGTON - A new report prepared for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has concluded that the Asian nation is likely using his sophisticated IT systems to spy on America. The report, released Thursday, analyzed China's information warfare strategy and offered up a case study in which an unnamed U.S. company was infiltrated by
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft on Friday said it is working on a fix for a vulnerability in the Server Message Block file-sharing protocol in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Release 2 that could be used to remotely crash a computer. The software giant had said that it was looking at the bug, discovered by
DETROIT - The U.S. Small Business Administration honored the Detroit participants in its Emerging 200 Initiative at a graduation ceremony on November 17. SBA's e200 program identified 200 inner-city businesses across the nation that demonstrated a high potential for growth. Selected companies participated in a free, six month course of in-depth business education focused on
SAN FRANCISCO - VeriSign, which runs the master database for such domains as .com and .net, says a significant Internet security vulnerability will be closed by 2011, after delays caused by technical aspects of the implementation. The problem is that DNS, the Domain Name System that translates Internet addresses into numerical values, can be seeded
ANN ARBOR - Ana Preston, Internet2's current Director for Regional and State Network Relations, and interim Director for International Relations, has been named Internet2?s new Executive Director for Member Relations and Communications . Her new appointment will begin December 1. In this role, Preston will assume management responsibility for the organization?s member engagement and communications
NEW YORK - Staffing levels in IT will remain the same in 2010 as they are now according to a recent survey conducted by Hay Group, the global management consulting firm. Sixty-nine percent of CIOs said their staffing levels will be unchanged in 2010, indicating a 'bottoming out' of staff reductions in IT. "Combined with
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. - A new report undertaken by ICSA Labs to mark its' twentieth anniversary contains some dispiriting news for security vendors, and some alarming news for customers. Nearly 80 percent of security products fail to perform as intended when first tested and generally require two or more cycles of testing before achieving certification. The
LANSING - Motorists would have the opportunity to pay a $10 fee when they renew their annual vehicle registration to receive a permit to use any state park or boating access site under legislation that passed the Senate on Thursday despite a sharp division among majority Republicans. The bills (SB 388 , SB 389 )
TROY ? Intelligent Connections is hosting a luncheon on Nov. 18 at Maggiano's Little Italy to update executives on how Internet Security has changed in a Web 2.0 world. This is a free event and RSVP is required. Web 2.0 has changed how companies use the Internet. Businesses have started to utilize Web 2.0 on
LANSING - Liquid Web Inc., the largest Web hosting company in Michigan with more than 20,000 clients in more than 120 countries, Wednesday opened its new cloud computing data center and world headquarters, boosting the company's hosting capabilities to 35,000 servers at three data centers. The $80-million, 90,000-square-foot facility in southwest Lansing will employ 600