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Schooled in security
August 18, 2005
Universities are looking for ways to protect networks while maintaining a free flow of data and ideas--an idea businesses could learn from.
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University server in hackers' hands for a year
May 22, 2006
Intruders go undetected in total on three servers containing student data at Ohio University.
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Illinois university hit with security breach
July 5, 2006
Data on more than 180,000 people is at risk after hackers get into servers at Western Illinois University.
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Ohio University suffers security breaches
May 12, 2006
Data thieves may have plundered Social Security numbers and other private info belonging to students and faculty.
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Sacred Heart is latest university to be hacked
May 26, 2006
TV station says personal data of 135,000 was possibly exposed, including people who were never associated with the school.
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University opens school for hackers
June 19, 2006
Scottish university says students will be carefully vetted for course in ethical hacking.
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UCLA break-in puts data on 800,000 at risk
December 12, 2006
For more than a year, an intruder has been accessing private information on students and staff, among others, the university says.
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FBI probes network breach at Stanford
May 26, 2005
Computer system security breach may have put the personal information of nearly 10,000 people at risk.
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Hackers steal ID info from Virginia university
January 10, 2005
Thousands of students, faculty and staff at George Mason University have personal information downloaded by online intruders in a major security breach.
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Schools get tailored cyberattack data
October 19, 2005
A customized service that analyzes data from firewalls and intrusion detection systems might help protect university networks.
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Software firms fault colleges' security education
February 16, 2005
A panel at the Secure Software Forum blames universities for turning out graduates who don't know how to program securely.
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Cell phone becomes new town crier
April 20, 2007
Universities and cities are seeing how these staples of 21st century society can be turned into tools for keeping people informed and protected.
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School's out to shun IE
December 9, 2004
Penn State urges students to use alternative browsers to reduce risk of attacks through flaws in the Microsoft software.
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University nixes Mac hacker contest
March 9, 2006
Plug pulled on Mac OS X hacker challenge over concerns about security and network access for university services.
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Year in review: Networking gets secure
January 3, 2005
Security was the networking buzzword in 2004 as larger players gobbled up smaller ones and big ideas about network protection were born.
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ComScore: Spyware or 'researchware'?
December 20, 2004
Controversy over widely used data collection tool could help define the limits of legitimate software behavior.
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Laptop theft puts data of 98,000 at risk
March 29, 2005
PC stolen from UC Berkeley graduate admissions office held sensitive data on thousands of people, stretching back three decades.
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Microsoft dishes out academic grants
February 16, 2006
Software giant allocates $1 million in funding to academic researchers in countries around the world.
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