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14 Aug 09

Happy 3rd Birthday ESI | Educational Security Incidents (ESI)

REN-ISAC denies membership to Adam Dodge (Assistant Director for Information Security at Eastern Illinois University) because he publishes articles on Educational Security Incidents

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24 Jun 09

Cornell University - CUinfo - June 2009 Data Theft - Frequently Asked Questions

"In June, 2009, a Cornell-owned computer that contained a large amount of administrative data was stolen. Our review of a current backup of the files on the system revealed that confidential personal data for about 45,000 current and former staff and students, and some dependents, had been present."

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11 May 09

Data theft: News updates / UC Berkeley

" 08 May 2009 BERKELEY — The University of California, Berkeley, today (Friday, May 8) began notifying students, alumni and others that their personal information may have been stolen after hackers attacked restricted computer databases in the campus's health services center.

The databases contained individuals' Social Security numbers, health insurance information and non-treatment medical information, such as immunization records and names of some of the physicians they may have seen for diagnoses or treatment.

UC Berkeley administrators pointed out that the hackers fortunately did not access University Health Services's (UHS) medical records, which include patients' diagnoses, treatments and therapies. Those records are stored in a separate system and were not affected by this crime."

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14 Mar 08

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences hacking incident — The Harvard University Gazette

  • A Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Web server that contained summaries of GSAS applicant data for entry to the Fall 2007 academic year, summaries of GSAS housing applicant data for the 2007-08 and 2006-07 academic years, and administrator information was hacked by an outsider and compromised in a way that the data on the server could have been viewed or copied. The GSAS site was taken down from Feb. 17 until Feb. 21 in order to investigate the incident and to improve security.
  • A Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Web server that contained summaries of GSAS applicant data for entry to the Fall 2007 academic year, summaries of GSAS housing applicant data for the 2007-08 and 2006-07 academic years, and administrator information was hacked by an outsider and compromised in a way that the data on the server could have been viewed or copied. The GSAS site was taken down from Feb. 17 until Feb. 21 in order to investigate the incident and to improve security.
11 Feb 08

Georgetown University Notifies Current and Former Students, Faculty and Staff of Data Breach

  • An external computer hard drive was reported stolen from a locked office within the Office of Student Affairs in the Leavey Center on the Main Campus on January 3, 2008.
  • An external computer hard drive was reported stolen from a locked office within the Office of Student Affairs in the Leavey Center on the Main Campus on January 3, 2008.

OHIO: Students - File Sharing Policies

  • “The network is a shared resource, and we must ensure that it is available to all users,” said Chief Information Officer Brice Bible. “Peer-to-peer file-sharing consumes a disproportionate amount of resources, both in bandwidth and human technical support.”
  • “The network is a shared resource, and we must ensure that it is available to all users,” said Chief Information Officer Brice Bible. “Peer-to-peer file-sharing consumes a disproportionate amount of resources, both in bandwidth and human technical support.”
09 Apr 07

27B Stroke 6 - Wired News

  • A federal appeals court just shot down an attempt by confessed superhacker Jerome Heckenkamp to overturn his computer crime convictions, which were an end result of information provided by a university sysadmin who broke into Heckenkamp's computer to gather evidence.
    The warrantless cyber-search was justified by the "special needs" exception to the Fourth Amendment, because "the administrator reasonably believed the computer had been used to gain unauthorized access to confidential records on a university computer," the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
  • A federal appeals court just shot down an attempt by confessed superhacker Jerome Heckenkamp to overturn his computer crime convictions, which were an end result of information provided by a university sysadmin who broke into Heckenkamp's computer to gather evidence.
    The warrantless cyber-search was justified by the "special needs" exception to the Fourth Amendment, because "the administrator reasonably believed the computer had been used to gain unauthorized access to confidential records on a university computer," the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
22 Mar 07

joegratz.net » University of Wisconsin Stands Up to RIAA

  • “These settlement letters are an attempt to short circuit the legal process to rely on universities to be their legal agent,” Rust said. “It basically says, you are illegally downloading and/or sharing information; and before we take legal action, you can remedy this situation and pay for the music or movies that you’ve downloaded.”
  • “These settlement letters are an attempt to short circuit the legal process to rely on universities to be their legal agent,” Rust said. “It basically says, you are illegally downloading and/or sharing information; and before we take legal action, you can remedy this situation and pay for the music or movies that you’ve downloaded.”

U of Nebraska can’t track down downloading students | ZDNet Education IT | Blogs, technology white papers, and RSS news

  • "We're spending taxpayer dollars tracking down RIAA problems," Weir said. "Are we an agent of the RIAA? Why aren't they paying us for this?"
  • "We're spending taxpayer dollars tracking down RIAA problems," Weir said. "Are we an agent of the RIAA? Why aren't they paying us for this?"
21 Mar 07

Educational Security Incidents (ESI) Year in Review - 2006.pdf (application/pdf Object)

  • The ESI Year in Review - 2006 examines all of the information security incidents occurring at colleges and universities around the world as reported in the news during 2006. Below is an example of the information contained in the Year in Review - 2006:

    * Total Number of Incidents: 83
    * Total Number of Institutions Reporting a Breach: 65
    * Total Number of Records Exposed: 2,683,059
    * Total Number of Incidents by Type:
    o Theft: 26
    o Impersonation: 1
    o Loss: 3
    o Penetration: 33
    o Unauthorized Disclosure: 20
  • The ESI Year in Review - 2006 examines all of the information security incidents occurring at colleges and universities around the world as reported in the news during 2006. Below is an example of the information contained in the Year in Review - 2006:

    * Total Number of Incidents: 83
    * Total Number of Institutions Reporting a Breach: 65
    * Total Number of Records Exposed: 2,683,059
    * Total Number of Incidents by Type:
    o Theft: 26
    o Impersonation: 1
    o Loss: 3
    o Penetration: 33
    o Unauthorized Disclosure: 20

TechIQ » Archive » Universities Abandon Old ERP for Open Source

  • If you want to understand where open source is heading next, visit Indiana University. During a recent chat with The VAR Guy, the university’s CIO described why the days of commercial ERP and CRM applications are limited.

    Instead of deploying new commercial enterprise applications, the university is partnering with several other colleges on two major open source projects, dubbed Kuali and Saiki.
  • If you want to understand where open source is heading next, visit Indiana University. During a recent chat with The VAR Guy, the university’s CIO described why the days of commercial ERP and CRM applications are limited.

    Instead of deploying new commercial enterprise applications, the university is partnering with several other colleges on two major open source projects, dubbed Kuali and Saiki.
15 Mar 07

Another round of RIAA seeking student ID

  • On Friday, March 9, and Saturday, March 10, the University of Michigan received notification that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) intends to sue or receive settlement from more than a dozen members of the U-M community engaged in unlawful peer-to-peer file sharing of music over the Internet. The RIAA has designated these individuals through IP addresses, and the University is in the process of identifying and notifying them.
  • On Friday, March 9, and Saturday, March 10, the University of Michigan received notification that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) intends to sue or receive settlement from more than a dozen members of the U-M community engaged in unlawful peer-to-peer file sharing of music over the Internet. The RIAA has designated these individuals through IP addresses, and the University is in the process of identifying and notifying them.
08 Jan 07

Sam Houston State University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source Asterisk - Network World

  • Some organizations consider taking the plunge off of big iron PBX platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that's nothing compared to what Sam Houston State University is doing. The south Texas school is boldly moving thousands of users off a Cisco VoIP platform to an open-source VoIP network based on Asterisk.
  • Some organizations consider taking the plunge off of big iron PBX platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that's nothing compared to what Sam Houston State University is doing. The south Texas school is boldly moving thousands of users off a Cisco VoIP platform to an open-source VoIP network based on Asterisk.
18 Dec 06

Universities Vulnerable to ID Thieves - washingtonpost.com

  • Universities have become attractive targets for hackers who are taking advantage of the openness of the schools' networks, their decentralized security and the personal information they keep on millions of young adults.
  • Universities have become attractive targets for hackers who are taking advantage of the openness of the schools' networks, their decentralized security and the personal information they keep on millions of young adults.

UCLA Probes Computer Security Breach - washingtonpost.com

  • The University of California, Los Angeles alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that their names and certain personal information were exposed after a hacker broke into a campus computer system.

    It was one of the largest such breaches involving a U.S. higher education institution.

    The attacks on the database began in October 2005 and ended Nov. 21 of this year, when computer security technicians noticed suspicious database queries, according to a statement posted on a school Web site set up to answer questions about the theft.

    Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams said in a letter posted on the site that while the database includes Social Security numbers, home addresses and birth dates, there was no evidence any data have been misused.
  • The University of California, Los Angeles alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that their names and certain personal information were exposed after a hacker broke into a campus computer system.

    It was one of the largest such breaches involving a U.S. higher education institution.

    The attacks on the database began in October 2005 and ended Nov. 21 of this year, when computer security technicians noticed suspicious database queries, according to a statement posted on a school Web site set up to answer questions about the theft.

    Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams said in a letter posted on the site that while the database includes Social Security numbers, home addresses and birth dates, there was no evidence any data have been misused.
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