LANSING - Michigan Homeland Security Consortium, an industry trade association of Homeland Security companies focused on building the emerging homeland security industry in Michigan, announced the appointment of new Board members and the 2009 Board from within the homeland security industry sector in Michigan. Elected Treasurer is Walter Catton of Midstate Security Company in Grandville.
LONDON - The Crown Prosecution Service has decided it will not prosecute self-confessed NASA hacker Gary McKinnon in the U.K., edging him closer to extradition to the U.S. McKinnon's diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum, had not been taken into account in the decision, a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spokesperson told
HICKORY CORNERS, Mi. - The 2nd biennial Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing forum April 3 -4 has issued a call for papers and posters �?? the submission deadline is March 6. Michigan Celebration of Women In Computing is part of a nationwide effort to address the alarming decline of American women choosing computer science
DETROIT - Dan Shoemaker, who is in charge of the University of Detroit Mercy's Information Assurance Center, is on his way to Paris to help the European Union develop a European strategy to secure cyberspace, starting with tightening up software code. Shoemaker is one of four delegates from the United States that will share details
WEST PALM BEACH, FL - If you bought something at a Best Buy store in West Palm Beach, Fla., late last year, or stayed at a Wyndham hotel in Florida last summer, or used a U.S. government travel Web site you might want to check your credit card statements closely. Best Buy warned this week
BOSTON - A study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of McAfee examining the use of Web 2.0 technology in the enterprise has found that it will continue to increase. The survey, entitled "Next-Generation Secure Web Gateway Trends and Requirements," polled 253 IT professionals and security decision makers around the world. It concluded that the
SAN JOSE - Information from security firm Symantec added. Attackers are making the rounds and exploiting a critical security flaw in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9. Earlier versions of the PDF-related software are also affected by the critical security flaw, which could cause the applications to crash and potentially let an attacker gain control
CARSON CITY, Nevada - A proposed bill in the Nevada State Legislature would make it a crime to do legitimate research on security weaknesses in radio frequency identification, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported. . The bill, S.B. 125, would make it a Class 3 felony to possess, read, or capture another person's personal identifying information
NOVI - At a time when critical infrastructure security is a national priority, ITC Holdings Corp. has been recognized for its efforts to safeguard the reliability of the high voltage electric system in Michigan. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, an international regulatory authority for the reliability of the bulk power system in North America,
PITTSBURGH - The University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs has added Palantir Government - a network-analysis software program designed to organize counter terrorism and cyber security intelligence to its security and intelligence studies curriculum. Developed by Palantir Technologies, Palantir Government has been widely used within U.S. intelligence, defense, and law enforcement