Cyber Defense

Merit Network Announces Network Security Professional Services

ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced the launch of its Network Security Professional Services, a suite of five consulting solutions that identify vulnerabilities and protect the networks of Merit Members from security threats. "Merit is pleased to launch Network Security Professional Services," said Elwood Downing, vice president of Member Relations, Communications and Services for Merit.

By |2012-07-12T00:00:00-04:00July 12th, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|

SunTel Services Achieves Platinum FortiParnter Status

TROY - SunTel Services announced it has achieved Platinum FortiPartner status with Fortinet, a worldwide provider of network security appliances and a market leader in unified threat management. The Platinum FortiPartner certification, which is the highest level of certification achievement, demonstrates that the SunTel team is expert in delivering Fortinet?s superior, next generation multi-threat security

By |2012-07-02T00:00:00-04:00July 2nd, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Secret Memo Warns That Canada Cyber Threat Is Growing

OTTAWA - Cyber attacks pose a greater risk to Canada's economic prosperity than the government previously believed and the country lacks the tools to fight hackers, officials warn in internal documents obtained by Bloomberg News. ?All new knowledge obtained indicates the problem is more widespread than previously thought,? said a ?secret?-stamped memo to Public Safety

By |2012-06-28T00:00:00-04:00June 28th, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Merit Network Launches Merit Michigan ID

ANN ARBOR- Merit Network announced the launch of Merit Michigan ID, a federated identity management service that enables participating organizations to provide access to shared resources, applications and content over Merit's network via a single sign-on account. "We are pleased to announce the launch of Merit Michigan ID," said Merit President and CEO, Don Welch.

By |2012-06-28T00:00:00-04:00June 28th, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|

New Malware Steals Architectural, Engineering Plans For Infrastructure

SAN FRANCISCO - Stuxnet showed us the potential for great damage in an attack on infrastructure. Now, a serious new piece of malware is stealing architectural and engineering plans for infrastructure. ?I think every public organization should be concerned about this,? said ESET security intelligence program manager Pierre-Marc Bureau in an interview with VentureBeat reported

By |2012-06-25T00:00:00-04:00June 25th, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|

KLIK Hole Plugged – Facebook, Twitter No Longer At Risk

SAN FRANCISCO - A hole in the Face.com mobile app KLIK has been closed after a researcher discovered that it could be used to hijack Facebook and Twitter accounts. KLIK lets people tag faces in photos using Facebook, which recently acquired Israel-based Face.com. But Ashkan Soltani, a privacy and security researcher, found that it also

By |2012-06-22T00:00:00-04:00June 22nd, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Global Payments: Consumer Data May Also Have Been Stolen With Credit Cards

SAN FRANCISCO - Credit card processor Global Payments said that in the course of investigating the theft of 1.5 million credit card numbers, it has discovered that hackers may also have stolen consumer data from servers. "Our ongoing investigation recently revealed potential unauthorized access to personal information collected from a subset of merchant applicants," the

By |2012-06-15T00:00:00-04:00June 15th, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Anonymous, LulzSec Spawn Hacker Crew Offshoots

SAN FRANCISCO - With names like "LulzSec Reborn," "MalSec," and "SpexSec," hacking groups are cropping up in the wake of LulzSec arrests and Anonymous dissatisfaction. "LulzSec Reborn" may be neither LulzSec nor reborn, experts say. It's been three months since the arrest of a handful of people accused of conducting denial-of-service and other attacks on

By |2012-06-15T00:00:00-04:00June 15th, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|