TORONTO, Can. - Research In Motion has been butting heads with foreign governments over its tight security, but its latest BlackBerry 6 OS has won approval from the U.S. government for those same standards. RIM announced today that its BlackBerry 6 operating system is now FIPS 140-2 certified. FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) is a
SAN FRANCISCO - Security research firm Sophos posted a memo about a rogue app that was spread on Facebook recently with messages like "OMG ... I can't believe this actually works! Now you really can see who viewed your profile!" The app is bogus. I've asked a Facebook representative about this before, and he told
SAN JOSE - My prediction is that we are all going to become nostalgic for the days of fame-seeking mass mailers and network worms. Think of LoveLetter, SQL Slammer, and Melissa all crashing millions of systems within hours of being released into the wild. Those threats seem quite quaint these days as we enter the
SAN FRANCISCO - Security software manufacturer BitDefender released some statistics gleaned from Safego, a Facebook application that it offers to users of the social-network to keep an eye on their vulnerability to malware. The big finding: 20 percent of Facebook users are exposed to malicious posts in their "news feeds" of friends' activity, generally defined
TROY - A digital forensics workshop for students is among 26 student projects that will be showcased on Saturday, Dec. 11, at the Walsh College Business Information Technology and Information Assurance Capstone Fair. The fair, which is free to the public, will be held from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Troy campus in
SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea has installed digital "bunkers" to prevent a repeat of the massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that crippled parts of the country last year. The nation was floored after huge streams of junk internet data poured across South Korea's networks last year, targeting the infrastructure of government and businesses in what
SAN FRANCISCO - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion says news reports suggesting that it's close to an agreement to provide India with lawful access to monitor and access network data are "inaccurate" and "misleading." One story CNET found, published yesterday in the Indian paper Mint, quotes an unnamed senior official from India's Home Ministry who
ANN ARBOR - A team of 14 autonomous robots built by University of Michigan students has won an international competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and its Australian counterpart, officials announced in Brisbane. U-M's team of more than 20 students, mostly from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, won a $750,000 grant
WASHINGTON DC - The Stuxnet worm is a "wake-up call" because of its complexity and its aim at critical infrastructure systems, a Symantec director told a U.S. congressional committee Thursday. The malware is a milestone in many ways, Dean Turner, director of Symantec Security Response's Global Intelligence Network, said in testimony before the U.S. Senate
DETROIT ? The University of Detroit-Mercy is hosting workshops on Saturday mornings for Southeast Michigan University students, out of work IT professionals, ICSEC Community College students, and high school students. Topics will range from how to use security software, how to use security hardware, nuts and bolts of wireless communications, how to create bootable USB