WASHINGTON - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski on Monday outlined his plan for requiring Internet service providers to keep their networks open to legal content and external devices. The plan, which is a top priority of Internet advocates who aggressively supported President Barack Obama in his run for the White House, would put into
DETROIT - Next week SecureWorld 2009 comes again to Detroit! Mark your calendar for September 29 - 30 to come to the Ford Conference & Event Center in Dearborn to get up to speed on the rapidly changing world of security. Hear keynote speaker Jeff Bardin discuss how extremists are using social networking today to
DEARBORN - Looking for a quality and affordable security conference in the Detroit area? One that provides nearly 60 plus educations components and that earns you 12-16 CPE credits toward your CISSP certifications? Security demands are rapidly growing while time and budgets for training are not. The Detroit SecureWorld Expo delivers the most affordable, highest
YPSILANTI ? Eastern Michigan University's Center For Regional And National Security has hired a new staff member, Samir Tout, PhD, who will be teaching and conducting research. He joins CeRNS after a career at Compuware. In other news, the Department of Defense has hired four of CeRNs' eight April graduates. Plus the merger between Information
DETROIT - In today's economy, employers are confronted with a wide variety of labor, employment, employee benefits and immigration issues. Butzel Long will offer discussion and strategies for human resources managers, business owners, in-house attorneys, and anyone involved in human resources or employment issues during the firm's 22nd Annual Labor and Employment Law Forum on
LANSING - House Speaker Andy Dillon and other top House Democrats may have cut a budget deal with Senate Republicans, but rank-and-file Democratic representatives voiced growing concern Thursday against the substance of the deal and the possibility of getting enough votes to pass it. House Democrats met behind closed doors for two hours on the
DETROIT - AT&T has introduced its 3G mobile broadband network in Mount Pleasant, Muskegon and Traverse City, providing area business and residential customers access to accelerated data speeds that open the door to a new era of mobile services, devices and feature-rich audio and video content. The addition of 3G technology to more than 75
SAN FRANCISCO - Web 2.0 sites that enable people to create content are increasingly used to carry out a wide range of attacks, according to a new security study. Websense's State of Internet Security, released Tuesday, notes that attackers are focusing their attention on interactive Web 2.0 elements. Some 95 percent of user-generated comments on
SAN FRANCISCO - Online scammers have created a phishing site masquerading as a U.S.-based bank that launches a live chat window where victims are tricked into revealing more information, researchers at the RSA FraudAction Research Team said on Wednesday. After a user accesses the phishing site, the chat window messages come through the browser and
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm is prepared to "assert her constitutional authority," administration sources said Thursday, and while no one would say the governor would outright veto an agreement cutting the 2009-10 general fund budget by $1.2 billion, they did say the agreement is not likely to take effect in its current form. Officials said