WASHINGTON DC - The chief information security officer for the White House's Executive Office of the President has been removed from his position, sources have confirmed. Cory Louie was appointed to the position by former President Obama in 2015, charged with keeping safe the staff closest to the president -- including the president himself --
WASHINGTON DC - Visitors to the US might be asked to relinquish their social media passwords to border agents as part of an attempt to tighten security checks. "We want to get on their social media, with passwords: What do you do, what do you say?" Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told the House Homeland
DETROIT - Caston Thomas, CEO of InterWorks, is a noted cybersecurity expert from the Ann Arbor area who has been called the Chuck Norris of Securing and Managing Mobile and Networks. There are new forms of ransomeware that now lock out your entire operating system unless you pay up. Caston also explained the new wireless
LANSING - Upwards of 1.87 million Social Security numbers, names and wage information for active employees in Michigan could have been accessed by unauthorized users after a software update done in October exposed these confidential records, state officials announced late Friday. What this means is the vulnerability could impact two-fifths of the state’s workforce since
ROYAL OAK - What will be President Trump’s cybersecurity strategy? Cybersecurity expert Dan Lohrmann with Security Mentor offers his thoughts in this M2 TechCast podcast. Even though Lohrmann notes the new cybersecurity strategist Rudy Giuliani has very limited cybersecurity background, he is encouraged that Giuliani will manage the nation’s cybersecurity strategy well. Lohrmann likes the
PLYMOUTH - Cybersecurity guidelines required by the Department of Defense are likely to have an enormous impact on the 800 Michigan manufacturers that received a DoD contract in 2016. By December 31, 2017, all DoD contractors (including small businesses) must meet minimum cybersecurity requirements or risk losing DoD business. Alarmingly, most manufacturers aren’t even aware
ROCHESTER HILLS - Just about every business these days is getting hacked. For example, at the beginning of June, the Twitter and Pinterest accounts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg were breached because he used a common password: “dadada”. Zuckerberg was lucky, however, since the hack was conducted by a company testing his security. Zuckerberg is not alone.
WASHINGTON DC - Rep. Mike Pompeo will lead the Central Intelligence Agency, after the US Senate confirmed his nomination Monday evening in a vote of 66 to 32. Pompeo, a graduate of West Point and Harvard Law, currently represents Kansas in the House of Representatives. Casting some of those no votes were senators who raised
SAN FRANCISCO - If you're worried someone's trying to hack into your Facebook account, now you can lock it up with a key. On Thursday, the social media giant said it would let users link a hardware token to their accounts. When you log in from new browsers or geographic regions, you can plug the
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
