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3 weeks ago | 
mitechnews.com | Mike Brennan |Cyber Defense
DEARBORN – In this video interview, Tamara Shoemaker, founder of the Michigan CyberPatriot program, said her organization will be hosting from July 7-11th two Cybersecurity Summer Camps at Battle Creek ANG Base and one in the metro-Detroit area. They are also looking for a metro-Detroit area venue for the one of the camp locations.
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3 weeks ago | 
mitechnews.com | Mike Brennan |Cyber Defense
ANN ARBOR – Signal is a messaging app that claims to be secure from hackers. But is it? Signal is in the news because it was used by Republican-appointed cabinet members to discuss a pending military attack on Yemen, targeting Houthi rebels. The recent chat group reported exchange involved the adminstration’s most senior national security officials. It also, accidentally, included Jeffrey Goldberg, himself a storied national security reporter before he took up the editorship of the Atlantic.
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1 month ago | 
mitechnews.com | Mike Brennan |Cyber Defense
ANN ARBOR – The greatest external threat to organizations today is cybersecurity attacks and Small to Medium Organizations (SMOs) are becoming more frequent targets each and every day. Large companies have the financial and personnel resources to manage cybersecurity issues. Smaller to Medium-Sized businesses do not have that luxury. Until now.
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1 month ago | 
mitechnews.com | Mike Brennan |Cyber Defense
NEW YORK – Hundreds of thousands of Android users, as well as several thousand iPhone users, have had their sensitive data compromised by a spouseware app, called Spyzie. The apps were found leaking email addresses, text messages, call logs, photographs, and other sensitive data, belonging to millions of people who, without their knowledge or consent, have had these apps installed on their devices.
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1 month ago | 
mitechnews.com | Mike Brennan |Cyber Defense
DEARBORN – CyberPatriot is a program aimed at grade school students that teaches them the basics of cybersecurity. Joining Matt and Mike on MITech TV is Tamara Shoemaker, who founded the program in Michigan, and hopes to develop summer camps for students to get even more hands on experience. In this video interview, she discusses what CyberPatriot is and does.
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2 months ago | 
mitechnews.com | Mike Brennan |Cyber Defense
DETROIT—The cost of cybercrime is expected to reach epic proportions in 2025 to the tune of $10.5 trillion globally, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, the world’s leading researcher and publisher covering the global cyber economy. This is a significant increase from a decade ago, when that figure was estimated at about $3 trillion.
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2 months ago | 
mitechnews.com | Mike Brennan |Cyber Defense
ANN ARBOR – Dan Lohrmann, former Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at the State of Michigan, returns to talk about the latest cyberthreats. Those include a new Chinese Generative Artificial Intelligence tool called DeepSeek and what impact Trump’s mass firings of federal employees in Washington DC may impact the United States ability to counter cyber threats. In the video interview on MITech TV (www.mitechnews.com), Lohrmann discusses:1) DeepSeek AI – What is it?
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2 months ago | 
mitechnews.com | Mike Brennan |Cyber Defense
WASHINGTON DC – The FBI is warning iPhone and Android users about a string of new scams that could put bank accounts and personal data at risk. Federal officials say smartphone users should hang up immediately if they receive this specific type of call, in which the scammer is pretending to be someone they’re not. The new scheme is more advanced than previous scam calls because scammers are using ‘spoof’ caller ID technology to impersonate banks and law enforcement agencies across the country.
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2 months ago | 
mitechnews.com | Mike Brennan |Cyber Defense
ANN ARBOR – Executive Search Partners specializes in Information Technology searches in the United States and Canada. Managing Partner Gary Erickson said his firm is recognized as one of the best Executive Recruiting Companies in North America. Erickson said while ESP focuses on recruiting Chief Information Officers and Chief Information Security Officers, ESP also recruits on for Finance and Accounting, and Human Resources positions.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
mitechnews.com | Mike Brennan |Cyber Defense
WASHINGTON – A top White House official said at least eight U.S. telecom companies and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign. Deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger offered the new details about the breadth of the sprawling Chinese hacking campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans.
