Security/Privacy
- Seattle U Broadens Emergency Communications
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10/3/2007
Seattle University in Washington is expanding its emergency notifications with the addition of the e2Campus communication system. According to a Seattle U representative, the university was also busy this summer bolstering its emergency preparedness in other areas.
- UP Deploys NAC Messaging Component
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10/3/2007
The University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, is adding a broadcast messaging module to its Impulse Point Safe•Connect network access control solution. The university adopted the Safe•Connect NAC earlier this year.
- MIT Forms Kerberos Consortium
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10/2/2007
MIT has launched the Kerberos Consortium, according to a report from the university's News Office. MIT is the originator of Kerberos, a network authentication protocol. One of the goals of the consortium is to expand it to offer data protection to a wider range of clients, including various consumer devices.
- Blue Lane To Ship VirtualShield 4 for VMware
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9/27/2007
Blue Lane Technologies has announced that it will ship VirtualShield 4.0 Oct. 5. VirtualShield is a security solution for VMware Infrastructure 3 and designed to integrate with VMware VirtualCenter.
- U Virginia Taps Visix for Unified Communications
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9/26/2007
The University of Virginia will deploy a suite of communications tools campus-wide in order to deliver news, emergency alerts, and other information to students, faculty, and staff. The university will use the Visix AxisTV Enterprise platform at the core of its campus communications network.
- DSU Uses Phone, Web To Notify Students of Shooting
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9/21/2007
Delaware State University notified students, faculty, and staff that it had canceled classes at its Dover campus after two students were wounded in a shooting that occurred shortly before 1 a.m. Sept. 21. One male victim is in stable condition, and the other female victim's injuries are considered serious.
- U Arizona Names First Chief Information Security Officer
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9/18/2007
The University of Arizona named Sylvia Johnson, an attorney working in its Office of the General Counsel, as the university's first information security officer.
- Storm Warning: Botnet Gearing Up To Attack Defenders
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9/14/2007
The Storm worm, a massive botnet that its developers have been amassing over the last several months, is starting to attack computers that have been set up to defend against it. The botnet is set up to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against any computer that is scanning a network for vulnerabilities or malware, IW reported.
- Converged Security: Can Ex-Cops, Propeller Heads, and Bean Counters Make Nice?
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9/14/2007
A growing trend in the corporate sector is to more closely integrate or even merge the oversight of information security, physical security, and fiscal security. Is this trend relevant to higher education? What can we learn from corporate experiences?
- Loyola Discards Hard Drive with 5,800 Student SSNs
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9/14/2007
A Loyola University Chicago computer containing the Social Security numbers of 5,800 students was discarded before its hard drive was erased, according to a letter from the school's chief information officer, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
- Moto Expands PTP Wireless Bridge Lineup
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9/14/2007
Motorola has expanded its MOTOwi4 lineup with a new fixed point to point wireless Ethernet bridge: the PTP 25600, a modified version of the PTP 600. The new 2.5 GHz, 300 Mbps solution is targeted toward Educational Broadband Service license holders and is designed to provide secure broadband access for online courses and other instructional programs. It's available now in the United States.
- UCSD Computer Scientists Follow Spam-Scam Trails
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9/14/2007
In a study of more than 1 million spam e-mails, computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have concluded that most scams are hosted by individual Web servers even though thousands of compromised computers might be used to relay spam to end users.
- Spy, Defense Agencies Recruit Security Talent at DefCon
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9/14/2007
Federal law enforcement, military, and intelligence agencies sent representatives to one of the world's biggest hacking conventions, in part to recruit gifted computer security aficionados to join the United States government and military ranks.
- MySpace Hacker's Profile Deleted After DefCon Demo
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9/14/2007
A demonstration by University of Akron student Rick Deacon on ways to hack MySpace accounts backfired when Deacon discovered that his own account was disabled immediately following his presentation at the recent DefCon computer security conference in Las Vegas.
- Michigan Prof Pushes Quantum Computing, Code Breaking
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9/13/2007
University of Michigan researchers are working on new optical technology that could lead to the faster development of quantum computers and ultimately to tougher data security techniques and faster encryption cracking.
- St. Mary's U Gets Federal Grant To Open CompSec Lab
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9/13/2007
St. Mary's University in Texas won an $87,000 grant from the United States Department of Education's Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program to help develop a computer security lab at the school.
- Higher Ed Wrestles with Risks of Removable Storage
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9/13/2007
Like IT managers across corporate America, campus IT managers are trying to solve the problem of securing removable storage devices in an open environment like a university.
- Victoria U Honeypot Tech Leads to Net Attack Study
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9/13/2007
The international Honeynet Project, a research consortium formed to share computer threat information and solutions, is using a behavioral analysis tool developed at New Zealand's Victoria University to study Web-based security attacks.
- Indiana CompSec Staff Give Phishing Lessons at State Fair
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9/12/2007
Representatives from Indiana University's School of Informatics went to this summer's Indiana state fair to offer phishing lessons: education in computer security techniques designed to help people better safeguard personal information on their computers.
- Judge Deals Setback to Ohio U Computer Hacking Victims
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9/11/2007
A lawyer for two Ohio University alumni who sued the school over losing their personal data in a computer security breach said that a judge's decision to throw out the case is typical of how courts are dealing with the growing problem of computer data theft.
- Text Messaging Signups Surge at CU Boulder
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9/5/2007
A new text messaging service set up by the University of Colorado at Boulder saw an enormous spike in enrollment following a stabbing on campus, Monday, Aug. 27. About 30 minutes after the incident, staff used the system to alert students. This service was launched as recently as Aug. 23 of this year.
- Notre Dame Speeds Launch of Crisis Notification System
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9/4/2007
The University of Notre Dame will launch a mass notification system this fall to enable administrators to notify students of a campus emergency via e-mail, text message, and voice mail. Notre Dame's Office of Information Technologies had originally planned to conduct a pilot project of the system but sped up its plans following April's shootings at Virginia Tech.
- On-Net Adds Audio Event Alerts to Surveillance System
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8/31/2007
On-Net Surveillance Systems is adding a new audio feature to its IP-based video surveillance suite: audio monitoring coupled with the ability to send alerts and automate activities based on certain types of detected audio, such as gunshots or screams.
- One More Year, and 'The Technology is [Still] the Easy Part!'
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8/30/2007
One of the more challenging parts of working within a higher education institution, especially (but not only) in the information technology arena, is coping with what the students "bring with them" to campus.
- 2 Universities Secure Data Using SafeGuard
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8/29/2007
The George Washington University and the University of San Francisco has deployed data security using Utimaco Safeware's SafeGuard offerings.
