ROYAL OAK - Cybersecurity expert Dan Lohrmann of Security Mentor will discuss the Trump Administration’s cybersecurity priorities Jan. 23 on M2 TechCast, an Internet Radio show co-hosted by MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan and former WWJ Technology News Editor Matt Roush. M2 (Squared) TechCast airs live from 3 to 4 pm each Monday at www.podcastdetroit.com. You can
FLINT TOWNSHIP – The student Cyber Defense Club at Baker College’s Flint campus can add another victory to its growing list, thanks to the great turnout for its first Computer Fix-IT. Through the two-day event, Dec. 29-30, about 25 students and faculty members serviced more than 250 computers at no cost for approximately 150 community
ROYAL OAK - Cybersecurity expert Dan Lohrmann talks about the cyber year in review and what’s likely to happen in 2017. He said 2016 was the year when hacktivism stole the show. Lohrmann said the new movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is well-timed — epitomizing outsiders banding together to bring down the powerful
SAN FRANCISCO - Future passwords could be more secure than anything you type, and all you'll have to do is look at your device's iris scanner to unlock it. Your eyes would serve as a more secure form of biometric security than your fingerprints, which hackers have been known to fool with high-resolution photos. The
ROYAL OAK - Backup as a Service and Disaster Recovery as a Service are two new buzzwords that have entered the tech lexicon. Robert Tessanne, vice president Cloud & Technology Solutions for Red Level Networks, explains the advantages of both in this segment of M2 TechCast. “BaaS” (Backup as a Service) and “DRaaS" (Disaster Recovery
OKEMOS - 2016 was the year hacktivists disrupted cyberspace as never before. And offline, hacker activities were much more unsettling to the international status quo. With the mix of fake news, leaked insider information to the press, and claims and counterclaims by public officials, the result was an undermining of news media and government source
LANSING - With Yahoo having up to 1 billion users’ emails compromised, employee data breached from the Federal Government multiple times, and other personal information data breaches, Michigan employers need to take greater action than ever before to protect their data. If your Michigan organization experiences a breach, the Michigan Identity Theft Protection Act of
PALO ALTO, CA. - Yahoo Inc. said on Wednesday that it has identified a new breach that occurred in August 2013 and involved data associated with more than one billion user accounts, double the number affected in a different breach disclosed in September. Yahoo said it believed the latest incident was likely distinct from the
NEW YORK - A new report contends more than 50 percent of retailers have failed to meet the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standards, putting both them and their customer at risk this Holiday Season to hackers. The 2016 Biggest Holiday Retailers Cybersecurity Report, taken by SecurityScorecard, provides a comprehensive analysis exposing frightening cybersecurity vulnerabilities
SAN FRANCISCO - Evan Robertson won his school science fair this year by proving just how thoughtless people can be on public Wi-Fi networks. Evan, now 11, programmed fake Wi-Fi portals and took them to food courts shopping centers across the Austin, Texas, area and waited to see how many agreed to some pretty outrageous
