DETROIT - InfraGard East has a couple of exciting events in the early planning stages, but I won't have more specifics until after the board meeting next Thursday. What I can tell you is that you should mark some space on your calendar on April 22 for a members only event that will feature a
WASHINGTON DC - The Obama administration's proposed budget will increase investments in renewable energy and fuel efficiency, while projecting billions of dollars in revenue from carbon regulations. The budget blueprint, published on Thursday, bumps up the Department of Energy's 2009 spending by 40 percent with more basic science research and loan guarantees for energy technologies
DETROIT - Dan Shoemaker, who is in charge of the University of Detroit Mercy's Information Assurance Center, is on his way to Paris to help the European Union develop a European strategy to secure cyberspace, starting with tightening up software code. Shoemaker is one of four delegates from the United States that will share details
BOSTON - A study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of McAfee examining the use of Web 2.0 technology in the enterprise has found that it will continue to increase. The survey, entitled "Next-Generation Secure Web Gateway Trends and Requirements," polled 253 IT professionals and security decision makers around the world. It concluded that the
SAN JOSE - Information from security firm Symantec added. Attackers are making the rounds and exploiting a critical security flaw in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9. Earlier versions of the PDF-related software are also affected by the critical security flaw, which could cause the applications to crash and potentially let an attacker gain control
CARSON CITY, Nevada - A proposed bill in the Nevada State Legislature would make it a crime to do legitimate research on security weaknesses in radio frequency identification, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported. . The bill, S.B. 125, would make it a Class 3 felony to possess, read, or capture another person's personal identifying information
WEST PALM BEACH, FL - If you bought something at a Best Buy store in West Palm Beach, Fla., late last year, or stayed at a Wyndham hotel in Florida last summer, or used a U.S. government travel Web site you might want to check your credit card statements closely. Best Buy warned this week
NEW YORK - New York newspaper Newsday plans to begin charging online readers for access to its content, rejecting a trend toward free online newspaper content. The move, which comes as the newspaper industry is mired in financial turmoil, was announced Thursday during a conference call in which Cablevision, the newspaper's owner, also announced it
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will propose a combined $634 billion in upper-income tax increases and cuts to government health spending over 10 years to fund a new program aimed at getting health coverage to all Americans, a senior administration official told the Wall Street Journal Wednesday. The spending cuts are aimed not just at
NOVI - At a time when critical infrastructure security is a national priority, ITC Holdings Corp. has been recognized for its efforts to safeguard the reliability of the high voltage electric system in Michigan. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, an international regulatory authority for the reliability of the bulk power system in North America,