LANSING - With Internet-based financial transactions expected to reach an all time high this holiday season, Michigan-based network security company, Periscan, announced that its initial Site Data Protection product has been certified as an officially approved security-scanning vendor for Mastercard. Any eTailers with sales greater than $125,000 per month are required by Visa and Mastercard
SAN FRANCISCO - Sun Microsystems has fixed five security bugs in Java that expose computers running Windows, Linux and Solaris to hacker attack. The flaws are "highly critical," according to an advisory from Secunia posted Tuesday. Vulnerabilities that get that ranking--one notch below "extremely critical," the security monitoring company's most severe rating--typically open the door
TROY - The Walsh College Information Assurance Center is offering a High Tech Technology Crime Investigation Association seminar on Dec. 5 at on Weapons of Mass Deception. Featured speaker is Cynthia Hetherington, a licensed private detective and owner of a New Jersey-based competitive intelligence and business research consultancy. Hetherington has a master of library science
SOUTHFIELD ? The Motor City Chapter of ISSA will host its monthly meeting on Dec. 15 at 2000 Town Center. The speaker and program has not yet been announced. The meeting will start at 6:30 pm at Suite 200B Conference Room. Food will be provided. The meeting is open to ISSA members, trial members and
SOUTHFIELD ? The former Computer Associates now rebranded CA has rolled out its latest product software suite, an Identity Manager to help companies track and control IT users more securely. CA Identity Manager taps the expertise of CA?s recent acquisition of Netegrity to unify identity management from the web to the mainframe unifying and simplifying
SAN FRANCISCO - Security software maker Symantec's rivals are chipping away at its market-leading position as the company deals with the departure of two executives key to its $10.3 billion Veritas Software acquisition, a slowing consumer market, and future price cuts. A reorganized McAfee and Trend Micro have cut into Symantec's lucrative consumer security market,
SEATTLE - Microsoft said Thursday that it has added three data providers in its effort to help customers defeat information-stealing attacks called phishing ? which seeks to get users to hand over personal information such as their username or password. The software maker said it has struck deals with Cyota, Internet Identity and MarkMonitor, each
SOUTHFIELD - ISSA Motor City Chapter will be holding its annual elections by E-Mail ballot in November. Only members in good standing (paid membership) will receive a ballot and can vote. Nominations for the 2006 term include: President: Brian Gawne (existing VP) Vice President: CJ Cui (Current Treasurer) Treasurer: Michael Riley (Current President) Secretary: Phil
SOUTHFIELD - The November meeting of the Motor City ISSA Chapter is scheduled for Nov. 17 at the ISSA?s new headquarters where Olympus Security President Jeff Recor will discuss the "Realities of Life in the Digital Age." Recor will discuss some of the most recent problems facing individuals and corporations in protecting their identities and
SOUTHFIELD ? Computer Associates has enhanced its flagship IT Governance solution, Clarity, with new features that include browser-based scheduling, more flexible resource management and expanded features to support global deployments. The changes are designed to help customers run their IT operations at peak efficiency. ?CA continues to collaborate with customers to deliver the IT governance