FERNDALE - Deception has long been practiced by the military to trick an enemy into collecting bad intelligence. But deception also is the class of techniques used to fool cyber attackers. It can be fake servers and endpoints (honey pots), instrumented to detect activity. It can be poisoned data that can include "beacons." If someone
FERNDALE - Cybersecurity experts Dan Lohrmann and Richard Stiennon again update the M2 TechCast audience on the top issues facing businesses and consumers in the rough and tumble world where cyber attacks are becoming the norm. In the first segment, Lohrmann and Stiennon continue to examine the plague of ransomware - one of the latest
FERNDALE - Merit Network President Joe Sawasky provides a preview of the Merit 50th Anniversary Party May 11-12 at the Eagle Crest Hotel in Ypsilanti. Merit Network was created in 1966 by the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University to connect all public universities and nearly 400 other education and non-profit
ANN ARBOR - Duo Security was awarded a $2.5 million grant Tuesday from the Michigan Strategic Fund, money that will be used to fund the cybersecurity company’s expansion and create up to 300 jobs over the next three years. Duo Security, with locations in Michigan, California, London, and Austin, plans to expand its existing operations
ANN ARBOR - Public schools, community colleges, public universities, and non-profit organizations in Southeast Michigan interested in cybersecurity training or economic development are encouraged to respond to a new request for proposals issued Tuesday by Merit Network. The deadline to respond is May 15. Merit, a sub-recipient of the Advance Michigan Defense Collaborative grant, is
EAST LANSING - Managed services provider Trivalent Group, already a major player on the West side of Michigan, added central Michigan to its footprint on Wednesday when President and CEO Larry Andrus announced the acquisition of KI Technology Group. Terms were not announced. But Andrus said the acquisition of the East Lansing managed services company,
REDWOOD CITY, Ca. - Techdirt readers know that the Chinese authorities have been steadily tightening their grip on most aspects of online life in the country, but there's one area that hasn't been mentioned much: the Web browser. Recently, a new report from the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab identified security and privacy issues in
LANSING - The fifth cyber summit is set for October where experts from across the globe will gather to discuss the very thorny cybersecurity attacks that plague businesses, government and personal Internet users today. The 2016 North American International Cyber Summit is scheduled for Oct. 17 at the Cobo Center in Detroit. “This event has
SOUTHFIELD - Students from Lawrence Technological University took first, second and tied for third place at the ISACA Cybersecurity Scholarship Case Competition, held last weekend at the University of Detroit Mercy. Teams of one or more students from Lawrence Tech, Detroit Mercy, Eastern Michigan University and Baker College competed in the event. It was organized
SAN FRANCISCO - Uber, the ride hailing company, has had its file of requests by government agencies demand user data, a report contends, some 33 regulatory requests for trip data that affected 583,000 drivers and 11.6 million riders. Uber released its first-ever transparency report on how it has complied with requests for user data by
