TROY - On January 7 and January 18, Walsh College will hold informational meetings at regarding a U.S. Department of Defense-funded scholarship for concentrated studies in information assurance. The meetings will be held at the Troy campus at 5 p.m. Room to be determined. February 12 is the deadline to apply for the scholarships, available
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Association for Computing Machinery and its partners are launching Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) to uncover and remedy the inadequacy of the nation's computer science education system at the K-12 level. While five of the top 10 fastest growing jobs are in computing-related fields, the percent of schools with rigorous high
TROY - A robotics lab grant proposal is among 18 student projects that will be showcased on Saturday, Dec. 12, at the Walsh College Business Information Technology and Information Assurance Capstone Fair at the Troy campus. The fair, which is free to the public, will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room
WASHINGTON DC - If the US and NATO are to succeed in reducing their involvement in Afghanistan and embark on an effective exit strategy, developing and cultivating the Afghan National Army is a top priority. Through the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, US forces and allied forces and contractors will continue training the ANSF. CSTC-A is
SAN FRANCSICO - According to Sophos' Australian team, which conducted a study to see how likely Facebook users were to offer up personal information, 41 to 46 percent of the 100 people Sophos contacted "blindly accepted" friend requests from two fake Facebook users created by the security firm. After becoming friends with Sophos, the security
SAN FRANCSICO - With most computers threatened by attacks coming through Web applications, it's no surprise that security would be a key piece of Chrome OS, Google's browser-based operating system that stores data in the cloud. In this video, Google security engineer Will Drewry explains how Chrome OS separates user data from root or system
NEW YORK - IBM said Monday that it has acquired database security firm Guardium, a leading vendor in monitoring and protecting databases for large enterprises. Guardium's technology can automate certain tasks to assist businesses with regulatory compliance, IBM told CNET News.Com. Big Blue expects the acquisition to help its customers better shield their critical databases
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft has begun a campaign to actively urge users of its 8-year-old Internet Explorer 6 browser to upgrade. After launching IE 8 in March, Micosoft has concurred with critics that IE 6 is outdated. Many people have dropped the older browser, but the remaining users are often the tough cases-those who don't
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network has chosen Greenview Data's award-winning SpamStopsHere anti-spam solution to provide an affordable and effective e-mail spam prevention option for its members. As a nonprofit organization, Merit provides more than 250,000 email boxes to colleges, universities and K-12 public and private school districts across the state of Michigan and the U.S.
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft on Monday said it is investigating a possible vulnerability in Internet Explorer after exploit code that allegedly can be used to take control of computers, if they visit a Web site hosting the code, was posted to a security mailing list. Microsoft confirmed that the exploit code affects IE 6 and