ANN ARBOR - Amazon Web Services (AWS), providing internet access to roughly 40 percent of the U.S. market, crashed on Tuesday afternoon for about five hours, unplugging millions of business websites that serve tens of millions of clients. Online Tech CEO Yan Ness said chief information officers are still picking up the pieces today, and
GRAND LEDGE - Over the past several months, alarm bells have been going off regarding potential attacks against the U.S. electrical grid. Consider these recent media headlines: The Wall Street Journal: Cyberattacks Raise Alarm for U.S. Power Grid — Excerpt: “Cyberattacks that have knocked out electric utilities in Ukraine, including one suspected hack earlier this
PLYMOUTH - Recent media coverage of hospitals penalized for high rates of hospital-acquired infections brings into focus one of the most preventable causes of such infections: unclean surgical instruments. Ensuring the cleanliness of surgical instruments has long been a vexing and troublesome issue for health care facilities. Until recently, however, most of the population was
LANSING - Fake news is now headline news. Add in fake apps and fake websites, and many organizations have a huge credibility problem. Let’s explore what you can do for real. Hoaxes have been around forever. From online pictures of seven-headed snakes to Russian President Putin riding a bear, most people know better and move on
HOUGHTON - The auto industry tends to be fiercely competitive. So what would bring multiple companies together on research projects? How about the chance to direct the nature of the research and having access to the engineers, scientists and students doing it—and the final results? That’s what Michigan Technological University’s new Light Duty Engine Consortium
OWOSSO - More than 30 students from Porter County Career and Technical Center, Valparaiso, Indiana, recently traveled to Baker College’s Owosso campus to learn about post-high school educational options at the Auto/Diesel Institute of Michigan. “Baker College’s ADI offers high quality programs in a state-of-the-art facility that are significantly different than a typical technical school,”
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.
TROY - The fourth quarter of 2016 ended on a high note for Automation Alley, Michigan’s leading technology business association, as its international business team conducted successful trade missions in both Cuba and Mexico and assisted in attracting Chinese robotics company DUO Robotic Solutions Inc. to Southeast Michigan. Automation Alley traveled to Mexico with 11
NOVI - On Friday Red Level begins a fresh, more expansive chapter in its story with a move to its new state-of-the-art offices in Novi. This new chapter takes the managed services provider down the road to Grand River Ave. Red Level's new offices are nearly triple the size of its former space, and boast
ANN ARBOR - Hacks and data breaches continue to make headlines—including during the presidential election—but that hasn't seemed to worry consumers, or even many policymakers. M.S. Krishnan, the Accenture Professor of Computer Information at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, says that while security breaches haven't changed consumer behavior, it's time for a
