Safety & Security
New campus safety issue: Cell phone stalking
The college student had endured months of online and cell-phone harassment from her ex-boyfriend. She ignored the barrage of eMails, changed her phone number, and dismantled online profiles to cut…
Can peer-to-peer file sharing coexist with network security?
Security experts have long cautioned about the risk to school and corporate networks posed by the use of peer-to-peer file sharing by individuals, warning that the practice creates holes that…
Facebook users targeted by rogue application
A new piece of malware making the rounds on Facebook falsely warns users that their friends have had problems viewing their profiles, posing a potential threat to users' personal information,…
Personal data on University of Florida system breached
A hacker recently broke into the University of Florida's computer system, jeopardizing the personal information of nearly 100,000 people, reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. …
Do we need a new internet?
Security and privacy on the internet have become so compromised that many experts believe it is time to start over, reports the New York Times. …
University’s eMail outsourcing delayed by legal woes
Plans to outsource the University of Texas at Dallas' eMail service to Yahoo! Zimbra have stalled after the Office of General Counsel (OGC), the main group of attorneys for the…
MySpace turns over 90,000 names of registered sex offenders
MySpace provided two state attorneys general the names of 90,000 registered sex offenders it had banned from its site in response to a subpoena, the New York Times reports. …
Hackers’ latest ploy: Spoofing 911 calls
A new kind of high-tech telephone fraud exploits a weakness in the way the 911 system handles calls from internet-based phone services. The attacks--called "swatting," because armed police SWAT teams…
Data breaches cost $6.6 million on average, survey finds
According to a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute, it costs $6.6 million on average when an organization suffers a data breach, and more than $200 per compromised record, CNET…
Georgetown nixes Windows 7 Beta downloads
Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., has barred students and faculty from using the trial version of Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system on school computers, InformationWeek reports. …