THE HAGUE, The Netherlands - A hacker in the Netherlands broke into some jailbroken iPhones and sent text messages to the owners asking them to pay to find out how to secure their phones, according to postings in a Dutch forum called Tweakers.net. One of the victims posted a screenshot from his iPhone of the
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - The Lose/Lose game warns players before they launch the application that they are likely to have files deleted. And as such was flagged this week as malware, a Trojan Symantec has dubbed OSX.Loosemaqure. How did this come about? Well CNET News.Com explained as part of his Master of Fine Arts thesis
SAN FRANCISCO - A zero-day flaw in the TLS and SSL protocols, which are commonly used to encrypt Web pages, has been made public. Security researchers Marsh Ray and Steve Dispensa unveiled the TLS (Transport Layer Security) flaw on Wednesday, following the disclosure of separate, but similar, security findings. TLS and its predecessor, SSL (Secure
SAN JOSE, Ca. - McAfee has released research finding from a global study that midsize organizations are cutting their security budgets at the same time that cyberthreats are escalating. The study found that more than half of midsize companies surveyed globally have seen more security incidents in the past year, and a single midsized company
ANN ARBOR - The Information Assurance Program at Eastern Michigan, Compsat Security, the State of Michigan Department of Technology, and Critical Infrastructure Cyber Protection and Awareness Division, Department of Homeland Security are presenting a one-day training event for small business to assist them in securing their cyber space. This event is free and includes lunch.
ANN ARBOR - When a fire or other emergency occurs, those rushing to respond want to know where their team members are at all times. ERT Systems LLC has developed a product that does exactly that, with the help of the Michigan Small Business Development Center. ERT Systems has created Onsite ERT, a portable and
ANN ARBOR ? Scientists in the United States will now be able work remotely with the Large Hadron Collider, a massive particle accelerator spanning the French-Swiss border nicknamed "The Big Bang Machine," through a new partnership announced by Level 3 Communications and Internet2. Under the agreement, U.S. LHCNet, Internet2 and Level 3 will connect a
ANN ARBOR - The office of Information and Infrastructure Assurance at the University of Michigan will host six nationally-known experts in the field of information technology security on October 20 at SUMIT 09. "Our symposium brings leading IT security experts annually to Ann Arbor," said Paul Howell, chief IT security officer at the University of
TROY - Important new personal health information privacy and security rules will have an enormous impact on the operations and use of technology by health care providers, health plans, health care clearinghouses and their business associates (who are now substantially, directly regulated in the same manner as covered entities). Health information privacy is a populist
SAN JOSE, Ca. - A new zero-day exploit targeting Adobe Reader, as well as 9.1.3 and earlier versions of Adobe Systems' Acrobat, drops a backdoor onto computers using JavaScript, Trend Micro researchers warned on Friday. Trend Micro identified the exploit as a Trojan horse dubbed "Troj_Pidief.Uo" in a blog post reported by CNET News.Com. It