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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 301 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: harvard grad students hit intrusion comments Discuss  
Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) is notifying about 10,000 individuals that their personal information may have been compromised as the result of a computer intrusion that was discovered in February. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 276 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: dhs extends time foreign students stay us comments Discuss  
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended the time some foreign graduates of U.S. colleges can stay in the country and work, earning the agency praise from Microsoft and other supporters of increased numbers of foreign worker visas. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 265 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn chinese grad students work leads criminal case comments Discuss  
http://www2.nysun.com/article/74830By JOSH GERSTEINStaff Reporter of the SunApril 17, 2008An unusual criminal prosecution concerning a professor's assignment of a Chinese graduate student to work on an Air Force unmanned drone technology project is part of an ongoing federal crackdown on China's efforts to gain American technology through academic exchanges, business deals, and old-fashioned espionage, officials said.The Justice Department's latest case, which originated at the University of Tennessee, is read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 244 days ago
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http://www.wbbm780.com/Hacker-Defended/2150588WBBM780.com08 May 2008Some students and parents at Winnetka's New Trier High School are rallying to the defense of a senior who's now charged criminally for hacking into the school's computerized records.WBBM's Bob Roberts and Regine Schlesinger report critics believe the school has gone too far in punishing him.18-year-old Jonah Greenthal of Glencoe already had been suspended and barred from the prom and graduation after he hacked the school's records in Febru read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 240 days ago
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http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2216373/students-educated-securityBy Tom YoungComputing12 May 2008IT students are not being educated on how to "bake in" security when designing and developing new software applications, according to research.The study for the Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) found that just one in five UK computing undergraduates get no more than five hours education on software security - and many get none at all.Insecure software applications have a knoc read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 206 days ago
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http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/06/12/Analysis_Students_labeled_security_threat/UPI-67991213307264/By SHAUN WATERMANUPI Homeland and National Security EditorJune 12, 2008WASHINGTON, June 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has labeled a group of the world's top oceanography students "security threats" because they applied for a new ID card required to get access to U.S. ports -- even though the agency acknowledges they are not suspected of any terrorism link." read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 204 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn students charged hacking schools computers plot grades comments Discuss  
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/school-grades-khan-2070690-allegedly-test?slideshow=1By LARRY WELBORN and MARK EADESThe Orange County RegisterJune 17, 2008NEWPORT BEACH -- A Tesoro High School senior was charged today with breaking into his high school in a plot to hack into the school computer system and change his grades to better his chances for college admission.Omar Khan, 18, also allegedly changed grades for 12 other students and once broke into the locked office of a vice principal in an attempt read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 160 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 04:06:15 -0500 (CDT)http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/080108dnmetUTD.1f0bd372.htmlBy HOLLY HACKERThe Dallas Morning NewsJuly 31, 2008A computer network attack at the University of Texas at Dallas may have exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information for 9,100 individuals, school officials said today.A security breach in UTD's computer network may have exposed Social Security numbers along wi read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 147 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: judge refuses lift order squelching students subway card hack comments Discuss  
Can't get no reliefA federal judge has refused to strike down an order gagging three Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates from discussing gaping security holes in electronic payment systems used by Boston's transit agency.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 146 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: murdered chinese students linked online betting scam comments Discuss  
Forum threats over football betsThe two Chinese Newcastle University graduates murdered last weekend could be linked to a complex web betting scam, Northumbrian Police believe.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 146 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:06:06 -0500 (CDT)http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10017438-83.htmlBy Declan McCullaghSecurity - News.comAugust 14, 2008The state of Massachusetts is showing no signs of abandoning its fight to keep a restraining order in place against three MIT students who discovered subway card vulnerabilities. In fact, the state transit agency is escalating its rhetoric.In a legal brief filed Thursday, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority we read more »
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