NEW YORK - United Nations report calls for Internet surveillance, saying lack of internationally agreed framework for retention of data is a problem, as are open Wi-Fi networks in airports, cafes, and libraries. The United Nations is calling for more surveillance of Internet users, saying it would help to investigate and prosecute terrorists, CNET News.Com
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Nicholas Allegra, who was hired last year after gaining fame at JailBreakMe, was let go after not responding to an e-mail offering to extend his employment. Apple's experiment with employing a hacker famous for jailbreaking the iPhone has ended. Nicholas Allegra, also known as Comex, was hired at Apple after gaining fame
BRUSSLES, Belgium - NATO plans to hold its Cyber Coalition 2012 war games, the Kommersant business daily wrote Thursday. In line with the exercise's scenario NATO members come under cyber attacks from an aggressor, which is described as "an African country." However, some NATO officials admit that the alliance is preparing to resist potential attacks
MOUNTAIN VIEW - A hacker named Pinkie Pie won $60,000 for exploiting a security hole in Chrome in the Internet search giant's Pwnium 2 competition. In an effort to shore up its browser's defenses, Google holds the competition to challenge hackers to hack their way through Chrome's security to find previously unknown holes. Tuesday's Pwnium
GRANDVILLE - Trivalent Group, one of Michigan's largest technology firms, will host ?BIASurvivor,? a no-cost disaster recovery workshop for the business community on Oct. 25 at its Grandville headquarters. Disaster recovery experts from Trivalent Group will share strategies to increase an organization?s survivability by building an effective business continuity plan. The program starts at 11:30
GRAND RAPIDS ? Larry Holland, president of NEM Technology, an Oscoda, Michigan, based authorized Avaya Connect Partner, came to GRRCon Midwest Information Security & Hacker conference at DeVos Place on September 27 to build his corporate brand. At the end of the two-day event, Holland said GRRCon got the job done. ?The solutions area was
TALLAHASSEE - Hackers have accessed the confidential information of nearly 300,000 students, employees, and faculty in a massive security breach at a Florida college, officials announced. The breach was first thought to have been isolated to employees at Northwest Florida State College but may involve student records from across the state, education officials said. More
DEARBORN ? The Michigan Cyber Range will be the focus of the ISACA-Detroit meeting on Oct. 17 when Merit President Donald Welch explains the newest wrinkle in the fight against cyber crime and terrorism. The after dinner topic will be OSINT Footprinting using Twitter and Phthon, a presentation by Raymond Lilly. Advance registration ends at
SAN FRANCISCO - Samsung Galaxy S3 owners are subject to a vulnerability that can actually be fixed with an over-the-air update. Samsung said that users can install a security update over the air that will safeguard them from a vulnerability that could allow someone to remotely delete all of their personal data from the handset.
SAN FRANCISCO - Wells Fargo is the most recent mega-bank to be hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack. According to the Wall Street Journal, roughly 220 customers filed complaints of outages on its Web site saying they had problems logging on. "The amount of bandwidth that is flooding the websites is very large, much larger