LIVONIA ? Motor City ISSA is hosting its Sept. meeting on Sept. 20 by exploring ways attackers can hide their traffic using steganography and covert channels. The event is hosted by Schoolcraft College. RSVP by Sept. 18. The speaker is J Wolfgang Goerlich the information systems and security manager for a Michigan-based financial institution. He
MENLO PARK, CA - Chief information officers plan a modest increase in IT staffing activity in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the just-released Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report. In the latest quarterly survey, 9 percent of CIOs said they expect to expand their IT departments, and 6 percent anticipate
DEARBORN ? Save $100 off the Two-Day Conference Pass at SecureWorld Detroit scheduled for Oct. 3-4 at the Ford Motor Company Conference & Event Center. You also can save $200 off the cost of the SecureWorld Plus Training. When registering enter code DETMITECH to get the discount. SecureWorld puts security experts together affordably, and in
DEARBORN ? The Detroit chapter of ISACA at its monthly membership meeting on Sept. 19 will discuss Establishing Controls for Your Records and Information Management Program before dinner and Risk Intelligence after. Advance registration ends at midnight September 15. Cheryl Strait talks records control, and Ryan Jones risk intelligence. The meeting is scheduled for University
WASHINGTON D.C. - Children's advocacy groups last week reportedly file complaints with the FTC against large corporations over brand-related online games that ask kids for friends' e-mail addresses without parental consent. The debate over personal data on the Internet and how it is used is always heated, but it becomes even more so when it
MOSCOW - A safer way to conduct online transactions and a new exploit blocker are the keystones to Kaspersky Lab's 2013 security suites, the company announced. The major new feature that's in both Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013 (download) is the exploit blocking engine called Automatic Exploit Prevention, CNET News.Com reported. It's
SAN FRANCISCO - Security researchers have discovered a single piece of malware that is capable of spreading to four different platform environments, including Windows, Mac OSX, VMware virtual machines, and Windows Mobile devices. First uncovered last month by security company Integro, Crisis was originally described as a Mac Trojan capable of intercepting e-mails and instant
MOSCOW - A Russian court Web site has been defaced following a verdict that saw the members of the all-female punk-rock band Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in jail. The Khamovnichesky District Court was hacked today by a group claiming to be affiliated with the U.S. branch of Anonymous. The site uploaded a message
SAN FRANCISCO - As the Syrian civil war continues to escalate, pro-government forces are allegedly carrying out a cyberwar against local dissidents. Syrian activists, journalists, and government opposition groups are under a barrage of targeted malware attacks, according to the watchdog group Electronic Frontier Foundation. What this malware does is deceptively install surveillance software into
SAN FRANCISCO - The group, which calls itself Anti Leaks, claims it took down RT.com while expressing support for the anti-Putin punk band Pussy Riot, whose members were arrested in March. An anti-WikiLeaks hacking group has taken credit for launching a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the Russian news site RT.com, CNET News.Com