LANSING - Five years ago, Michigan began to approach the problem of underage drinking in a different way - vertically rather than horizontally. A law went into effect on July 1, 2003, requiring the issuance of vertical (portrait) style driver?s licenses or personal identification cards to individuals under the age of 21. As a result
LANSING - Jim Barrett, who retired on June 30 after 32 years as president of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, says Michigan is going through the most challenging economic period he has seen in that time, but is optimistic about its future. Although businesses continue to chafe under what many see as excessive tax and
CHICAGO - CDW Corp. has released the results of their survey of business IT professionals that revealed a disparity between the most common IT security headaches and businesses' deployment of solutions that could relieve them. The report, called "User-Proof IT Security Report," interviewed over 300 IT professionals at companies with more than 100 employees, focusing
OTTAWA, Ontario - The IT industry must help citizens reclaim their digital identities. That's the view of a top Canadian civil servant dealing with the issue, Ontario's information and privacy commissioner Anne Cavoukian. Cavoukian made reference in a recent paper to how people are losing control of their personal information that is globally circulating in
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - McAfee has discovered the use of Google Docs by spammers that circumvent spam filters in order to deliver their unsolicited messages. Google Docs is Google's online rival to Microsoft's Word text processing application. By hosting their message on legitimate sites such as Google Docs, spammers make it harder for anti-spam technology
DETROIT - InfraGard has made decisions at the national level to both make it easier for people to join and to guarantee the security of members who join to be a part of securely sharing sensitive information. Within the next few months, FBI will be requiring the rollout of a New Systems Upgrade, which will
LANSING - By any measure, the first Michigan Cyber Security Summit was a total success. It drew so many participants that registration had to be cut-off the week before the event. It provided outstanding presentations from nationally known speakers including Cornelius Tate, the newly appointed Director of the Department of Homeland Security�??s National Cyber Security
SUNNYVALE, Ca. - E-mail security and data leak prevention vendor Proofpoint has released a version of its on-demand service for small- and medium-sized businesses. Proofpoint on Demand -- Standard Edition uses the same anti-spam and anti-virus applications found in the Enterprise Edition that was launched last summer, but the configuration has been simplified to take
SAN JOSE, Ca. - Spyware, viruses and worms continue to plague most organizations, but security challenges tied to the use of handheld devices and mobile and remote computing are growing at a rapid pace, new research commissioned by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) reveals. The CompTIA survey of more than 2,000 individuals found that
BILBAO, Span - PandaLabs, the malware detection and analysis laboratory at Panda Security, has discovered several free phishing kits on the Internet which allow cyber-crooks to send out fraudulent emails. These tools allow cyber-crooks to spoof bank pages and emails, online pay platforms, Gmail and Yahoo!Mail mail accounts, online games (Xbox password theft) and blogs