MILWAUKEE - A 27-year-old suburban Milwaukee man created an Internet site used as a worldwide malware marketplace that was shut down Wednesday after an investigation by 20 law enforcement agencies across the globe, federal documents filed Wednesday show. The site, known as Darkode.com, was seized by federal authorities Tuesday. A dozen people, including Daniel Placek
AUBURN HILLS - On Thursday, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' Embedded System Quality Engineering team released a Technical Service Bulletin for a software update that offers customers improved vehicle electronic security and communications system enhancements. Similar to a smartphone or tablet, vehicle software can require updates for improved security protection to reduce the potential risk of unauthorized
GRAND RAPIDS - There is one week left for emergency management and homeland security officials to join more than 1,200 attendees for the 2015 Great Lakes Homeland Security Training Conference and Expo at the DeVos Place in Grand Rapids from May 5-7. Registration closes at 5 p.m. April 24. Under the banner of ?one team,?
TROY ? Despite what is said publicly, the United States does not have the capabilities to defend the nation from a cyberattack launched by a foreign government, or organized crime, Brigadier General Michael A. Stone, the assistant adjutant general, Army National Guard, told a large audience at Walsh College Wednesday night. Stone, the keynote at
SOUTHFIELD - An advanced flash storage cloud environment enabling companies to process heavy workloads at faster speeds was introduced this week by Secure-24, a provider of application hosting and managed cloud services. Secure-24 has invested heavily in the new flash storage architecture and has implemented it across its cloud data centers in Michigan and Nevada.
WASHINGTON DC - Russian-government hackers who reportedly breached the White House's computer systems late last year gained access to sensitive information, though US officials said at the time that they hadn't, according to a story published Tuesday by CNN. Officials had previously said the White House breach, in October, had affected only an unclassified network,
WASHINGTON DC - The National Security Agency reportedly contemplated curtailing its program to collect the phone records of America citizens even before whistleblower Edward Snowden spilled the beans. The NSA, which has been intensely criticized for its program of vacuuming up the phone call records of US citizens, has publicly defended the practice as a
WASHINGTON DC - President Barack Obama issued an executive order Wednesday authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State and Attorney General to impose sanctions on cyberattackers hacking into the networks of US companies or government agencies. "Effective incident response requires the ability to increase the costs and reduce the economic benefits from malicious
TROY - Brigadier General Michael A. Stone, assistant adjutant general ? Army, Michigan National Guard, a recognized expert and leader on security topics, will be the keynote April 15 at the first Walsh College Center for Cybersecurity Leadership conference. Among several important cybersecurity issues, Stone will address opportunities available to the state of Michigan as
SOUTHFIELD - The Detroit Chapter of ISACA is happy to announce the upcoming spring seminar: Hidden Secrets from IT Auditors 2015 Edition, presented by Mitch Levine of Audit Serve Inc. Seminar Objective: After being on the audit side for the first half of his 30 year career, Mitch Levine has spent most of the last