NEW YORK - Best Buy is warning customers who purchased its Insignia 10.4-inch Digital Picture Frames that their device may be harboring a virus, according an advisory posted on its Web site. Insignia digital frames, with model number NS-DPF10A, may be infected with the virus, Best Buy states in its posting, CNET News.Com reported. The
TROY - If you're not sure whether worms are used for phishing. If cookies and smurfs sound like harmless Saturday morning fun. If you're pretty sure that attacks by zombies and bots only happen in science fiction movies. If you've ever wondered what exactly it means to be phished, pharmed, spammed, spimmed, or spoofed, this
LANSING - Ensuring security of Michigan's computer systems is the top priority, Department of Information Technology Director Kenneth Theis said Tuesday, and that will mean assuring both internal and external security. He spoke at a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Emerging Technologies Committee that unanimously recommended confirmation of his appointment as the permanent
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft said on Thursday that it has released another updated test version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The company said that the new version, dubbed "Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh 2," has been released to about 15,000 beta testers, CNET News.Com reported. The code is not being made available publicly, Microsoft
SOUTHFIELD - A new Storm Worm virus is attacking this time spoofing the theme of love, just in time for Valentine's Day. Emails with links to a bait website hosting the malware have been sent in bulk numbers for the past weeks, warns MicroWorld Technologies. The subject lines are mushy - Eternity of Your Love?,
ROYAL OAK ? Intelligent Connections will host four lunch and learn presentations in February ? three in Michigan and one in Ohio ? that will show attendees how they can discover, monitor and protect sensitive web data using Websense Content Protection Suite. Websense Intelligent Content Protection is based on best-in-class products and hosted solutions that
SOUTHFIELD - If your organization is still relying on the same old authentication and access control schemas and failing to keep pace with current technologies, it's only a matter of time before a breach occurs. CA has scheduled two evening mixers in February to show you how to keep the bad guys out of your
DETROIT ? Michigan InfraGard has elected a new board for 2008 with former President Dan Lohrmann, chief information security officer for the state of Michigan, passing the leadership mantel to Rod Kinghorn, his counterpart at General Motors. Lorhmann moves to chairman, with John Montville of Nationwide Security coming on the board as vice president; Beau
ANN ARBOR ? Spam accounted for 95 percent of email traffic in 2007, including attack strategies not seen in previous years, so says SpamStopsHere, an email filtering solution created by Greenview Data. Spammers were in full throttle last year developing new spamming techniques. Phishing attacks rose dramatically, worms threatened millions, and overall spam levels hit
WYOMING ? The risks involved with entrusting business processes and data handling to third parties is the topic of the Jan. 18 meeting of the Grand Rapids chapter of ISSA scheduled for Steelcase University. Rebecca Herold of Rebecca Herold & Associates will explain to attendees how to minimize the business risk of outsourcing data management.