SAN FRANCISCO - The Cloud Security Alliance, whose founding members include eBay, PGP, and Qualys, is seeking to promote the best ways to secure cloud computing and outline how to use cloud computing for the protection of other types of computing. "The very nature of how businesses use information technology is being transformed by the
WASHINGTON DC - Two Senators are attempting to curb unsolicited text messages with a bill to strengthen government oversight of commercial texts. Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) this month introduced the m-SPAM Act, which would strictly prohibit commercial text messages to wireless numbers listed on the Do Not Call registry. The bill
REDMOND - Hackers have launched attacks targeting an unpatched flaw in Microsoft PowerPoint, the company warned last week. The vulnerability, which affects Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3, can be exploited by getting a person to open a PowerPoint file rigged for the attack. When the file is opened, PowerPoint will access
SOUTHFIELD - To have a successful information security program, you must first visualize the successful program. The first person you must sell, before your boss, is yourself. The April 16 meeting of the Motor City Chapter of ISSA look at ways to sell that message. The session also will discuss establishing a short-term goal, achieving
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm has ordered departments to take better care of personal information, creating the Information Privacy Protection Council to oversee those efforts. She made the Parole Board, eventually, smaller and the Great Lakes Wind Council larger. The IPPC (Executive Order ), created in the Department of Information Technology and led by the
LANSING - Rep. Paul Opsommer (R-DeWitt) said Monday the governor's newly created Information Privacy Protection Council and the chief privacy officer should review the state's memorandum of agreement with the federal government regarding enhanced driver's licenses, arguing the use of radio frequency identification chips poses a privacy risk. The Legislature approved the enhanced driver's license
WASHINGTON DC - The Supreme Court won't consider reinstating Virginia's antispam law, among the nation's toughest in banning unsolicited emails. The court Monday said it will leave in place a ruling by the Virginia Supreme Court that the law was unconstitutional because it prohibited political, religious and other messages in addition to commercial solicitations. Virginia
MOUNTAIN VIEW - There's been lots of hype about the fact that the latest variant of the Conficker worm is set to start communicating with other computers on the Internet on April 1 - like a bad April Fool's joke. But security researchers say the reality is probably going to be more like what happened
TROY - Join Automation Alley and Walsh College for a one-day conference on cyber security with nationally-recognized information security experts Tom Peltier, president of Peltier Associates and Richard Stiennon, chief research analyst of IT Harvest, who will address the growing need for businesses to take steps to protect company data and other sensitive information. Topics
YPSILANTI - Ensure Technologies and ERT Systems signed an agreement to develop radio tags designed specifically for the emergency services market. ERT Systems has licensed Ensure Technologies' hardware for more than a year for use in its ID tags and Drop Readers. This agreement calls for the two companies to co-develop a new tag specifically