SAN FRANCISCO - Credit card processor Global Payments said that in the course of investigating the theft of 1.5 million credit card numbers, it has discovered that hackers may also have stolen consumer data from servers. "Our ongoing investigation recently revealed potential unauthorized access to personal information collected from a subset of merchant applicants," the
SAN FRANCISCO - With names like "LulzSec Reborn," "MalSec," and "SpexSec," hacking groups are cropping up in the wake of LulzSec arrests and Anonymous dissatisfaction. "LulzSec Reborn" may be neither LulzSec nor reborn, experts say. It's been three months since the arrest of a handful of people accused of conducting denial-of-service and other attacks on
MOSCOW - Amid the exposure of Flame, its authors appear to be going to ground, using what control they have of the malware to force it to self-destruct and disappear (almost) without a trace. Earlier this week, Kaspersky Labs noted that in a matter of hours after researchers had announced the discovery of Flame, the
WALSH - IT students at Walsh College will showcase their knowledge and skill at the Walsh College Business Information Technology and Information Assurance Capstone Fair June 16 at the college's Troy campus. The fair is free and open to the public. The Capstone project demonstrates to faculty, family, peers and industry professionals that students have
GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan Chapter of the American Society for Industrial Security named Van Andel Institute Physical Security Director Kevin M. Denhof, CPP, Security Practitioner of the Year at its annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner on May 31. This is the second time Denhof has received the award, the first time being in
KALAMAZOO - At the 2012 Great Lakes InfraGard Conference June 20 at the Fetzer Center at Western Michigan University leaders in their industries will discuss trends relating to risks to critical infrastructure and efforts to protect these assets. This daylong event will feature speaker Jim Darrow, Director of Technical Services for Ilitch Holdings and luncheon
DETROIT - Butzel Long Litigation Technology Specialist Stephanie Shattuck has been appointed Detroit Chapter Director of Women in eDiscovery. In this role, she is responsible for the overall management of the chapter. The mission of the Women in eDiscovery is to bring together businesswomen interested in technology related to the legal industry and to provide
SAN FRANCISCO - Web users in Iran and Syria attempting to use a proxy tool to freely surf the Internet are reportedly being tracked by a new Trojan. The proxy software known as Simurgh is used by many Iranian and Syrian citizens to make it seem as if their secure Internet connections are coming from
SAN FRANCISCO - Security firm Bitdefender has introduced Clueful (iTunes), an app that lets you see what information other applications installed on your phone might have access to. Once installed, the $3.99 app scans your device to see what's installed and puts it in an ordered list that can be filtered based on the various
SAN FRANCISCO - Google is using a clever Domain Name System hack to let people infected with the DNSChanger malware know that they have only a few weeks left before their Internet connection goes dead. The warning that will appear at the top of search results for people whose computers are infected. The effort, scheduled