ANN ARBOR - In June, NASCAR Team Circle Sport admitted it paid off ransomware runners after one of its main test computers was infected with Truecrypt malware, a form of ransomware. The NASCAR laptop was quickly isolated, but the ransomware left the team’s crucial test data locked up two days before a big race. Despite
SAN FRANCISCO - If you've never heard of a DDoS attack before, you could be forgiven for wondering what the frak was going on Friday as half your favorite websites stopped working. The acronym stands for "distributed denial of service attack," which is technical speak for a simple but increasingly powerful tool for knocking websites
NEW YORK - Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up Friday morning. This was happening as hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s probably safe to assume that the two situations are related.
DETROIT - A team of cyber hackers from Clinton High School earned first place honors, its name on a traveling trophy and a picture with Gov. Rick Snyder during the 2016 North American International Cyber Summit at Cobo Center Occt. 17. Second place went to Airport High School in Carleton and third place to Cadillac
ANN ARBOR - Take a tip from one of the world’s best known hackers, Kevin Mitnick, who for 20 years was on the FBI’s most wanted list until he was caught in 1995 and jailed for five years. Today Mitnick runs a private consulting company that claims a 100 percent successful track record of penetrating
DETROIT - Richard Stiennon is an internationally recognized expert on Cyber Security and published author. We asked him how deep the problem of Russian hacking went in the American presidential race and some of the consequences of this blatant “meddling” in the choice of our next leader. Some of his answers may surprise you and
DETROIT - Thousands of people will receive cybersecurity training next year, thanks to a new education collaboration announced by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Oct. 17 at the 2016 International Cyber Summit at Cobo Center. A new educational partnership, the Regional Cybersecurity Education Collaboration (RCEC), works to boost the pool of available cybersecurity workers in Michigan
SAN FRANCISCO - Magicians are always coming up with new ways to trick people, and so are the hackers. And this time is no different. Hackers will do whatever they can to trick people into getting their login credentials, or try to lure them into a tempting offer, in which once they enter their details, will
SOUTHFIELD - Secure-24 is offering two new services, Compliance Elite and Executive Security Information Advisory Services, the latest enhancements to its Managed Security Services portfolio. “With IP theft soaring more than 56 percent this year and the average cost of breaches exceeding $2.5 million per incident, executives recognize the impact a lack of security has
WASHINGTON DC - Russian hackers are attempting to alter the outcome of the US national election by tampering with voter registration databases with the simple goal of undermining confidence in one of the most contentious presidential elections in history. But cybersecurity experts said actually altering results is impossible because voter registration databases are not the
