WASHINGTON DC ? Federal judge Michael Chertoff has been nominated to succeed Tom Ridge as the nation?s second Secretary of Homeland Security. Chertoff was a surprise pick to fill the slot left when former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik withdrew his nomination because of immigration problems with a family housekeeper. But Chertoff carries his
PITTSBURGH ? US-CERT has issued another eSecurity warning this time regarding the multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows that could be exploited by malicious code referred to as Phel. Systems Affected include Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, and Server 2003; Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x; and other Windows programs that use MSHTML. Reports indicate that one
SANTA MONICA, CA. - Are you at risk of losing your privacy? Answer the following three simple questions: Do you shop or bank online? Do you use an ?always on? high-speed Internet connection? Do you connect to the Internet from your home computer? If you answered ?yes? to any of these questions ? then you
SOUTHFIELD - There?s a dangerous communication gap in today?s enterprises ? Networks Operations and Security Operations are working in independent vacuums. This gap, rather than closing, is only growing larger and more hazardous. As budgets face resource squeezes and groups war for people and monies, companies are turning their own strengths, their people, against themselves.
WASHINGTON ? The Global Positioning Satellite System, vital to commercial aviation and marine shipping, could be shut down during a national crisis to prevent terrorists from using it during an attack, the White House said. A Bush Administration official who spoke to a small group of reporters on condition of anonymity, said any shutdown of
PITTSBURGH ? US CERT has issued a security alert warning an attacker may be able to take control of your PC, or make it crash, through a security breach in Internet Explorer. US CERT at Carnegie Mellon University warned there is a vulnerability in the way Internet Explorer processes certain HTML code. But if the
ANN ARBOR ? More publicity, including a new branding campaign, is in the offing for InfraGard, representatives for the InfraGard Midwest Regional Council were told during the group?s fall meeting. A public relations plan is coming together that also will include more mentions of InfraGard by the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security. InfraGard
DETROIT - The trip across the Canadian-US border will soon get more high-tech for many foreign travelers after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced plans to collect digital fingerprints and photos of visa holders passing through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel or over the Ambassador Bridge. The US-VISIT program, which is already in effect at the
DETROIT - Ask Emily Campbell, Information Technology Chair for ITT Technical Institute in Canton, and she will tell you the way to safeguard your career is to get into a line of business that can?t be off-shored - like security. Specifically government security. In the business world, horror stories already abound of companies in various
SOUTHFIELD - HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, CFR Part 11, Basel II? alphabet soup ? What?s a good Chief Security Officer to do? Complying with the regulatory requirements does not have to be scary, nor does it have to be a reactive fire drill. The primary intent of regulatory compliance is to establish a level of control