BRUSSELS, Belgium ? The European Union Commissioner for Justice said Europe needs new cross-national data protection laws to countermand the ongoing backlash against business following the NSA PRISM spying scandal that rocked the world earlier this year. Vivian Reding claimed the region's economy will suffer unless new uniform data protection laws are created. "Trust has
GRAND RAPIDS - GRRCon began Day 2 last week with a keynote from Georgia Weidman who presented on "Burning the Enterprise with BYOD," which expanded into the multiple threats introduced with an increase of mobile devices. In a survey from more than 50 attendees at this year?s conference, Bring Your Own Device was listed as
NOVI ? The second Michigan Cyber Summit on Oct. 25 will be held at the sprawling Suburban Collection Showplace to accommodate what organizers feel will be attendance at least 50 percent greater than during the first Summit in 2011. Headlining the day-long event will be Roberta Stempfley, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Homeland Security Office
BIRMINGHAM ? IT-Harvest Press has published a children?s book that explains SCADA, the critical control systems that are embedded in every part of modern life, from oil and gas transport to electrical distribution, to hospitals, power plants, even satellites. SCADA and ME: A Book For Children and Management, is written by Robert M. Lee a
SAN FRANCISCO - Wickr, an SMS encryption program, launched Monday in beta on Android. The app's argument is simple: its San Francisco-based makers claim that Wickr, now cross-platform between Android and iOS, provides the most secure text messaging apparatus currently available. It uses AES-256, RSA-4096, ECDH-521, Transport Layer Security, and SHA-256 to encode data while
GRAND RAPIDS ? More than 800 security professionals attended the first day of GRRCon, Midwest Information Security & Hacker CON, roughly the same amount as the year before. But exhibitors at the show were up by a third, the show?s co-producer said Thursday. Chris Payne, a security professional in Grand Rapids, said he had to
GRAND RAPIDS - LED Lights marked the Speakers badges fueled by a tiny Arduino chip. Wireless hacking stations made you scared to get on any Wi-Fi service. You have no idea who to trust at GRRCon, the third annual Midwest IT Hacker Con, which began Thursday. Day one was packed full of events, including four
SAN FRANCISCO - A new variant of the Tibet malware for OS X has been found. This variant uses a recently patched Java exploit to install a backdoor service in targeted systems and allow a remote hacker to log in and steal files. While OS X has been affected relatively minimally by malware, the platform
LONDON, UK - Another shoe has dropped in the National Security Agency's covert mass surveillance program. Whistleblower Edward Snowden has provided The Guardian with a document that outlines the NSA's widespread sharing of "US persons" cellular and e-mail metadata with Israel. According to The Guardian, "US persons" include US citizens, permanent residents, and anyone located
DAMASCUS, Syria - If the United States attacks Syria, it will be the first time it strikes a country that is capable of waging retaliatory cyberspace attacks on American targets. The risk is heightened by Syria's alliance with Iran, which has built up its cyber capability in the past three years, and already gives the