I hope these guys don't offer a
Computer Security degree...
CA:
Viruses stole City College of San Francisco data for over a decade
before being detected
January 13, 2012 by admin
Nanette Asimov reports:
Personal banking
information and other data from perhaps tens of thousands of
students, faculty and administrators at City College of San Francisco
have been stolen in what is being called “an infestation” of
computer viruses with origins in criminal networks in Russia, China
and other countries, The Chronicle has learned.
At work for more
than a decade, the viruses were detected a few days after
Thanksgiving, when the college’s data security monitoring service
detected an unusual pattern of computer traffic, flagging trouble.
Read more on San
Francisco Chronicle.
[From the article:
For now, it's still
going on. So far, no cases of identify theft have been
linked to the breach. That may change as the investigation
continues, and college officials said they might need to bring in the
FBI.
The college's payroll, admissions and
accounting systems have yet to be analyzed for the viruses.
… It's likely that personal
computers belonging to anyone who used a flash drive during the past
decade to carry information home were also affected.
… "These
viruses are shining a light on years of (security) neglect."
[Ya think? I'd also be interested in determining what change finally
caught this virus Bob]
…
Places like City College of San Francisco, where officials have
done little to protect against cyber attacks over the years, are
especially vulnerable, Hotchkiss said. He arrived at City College in
July 2010, and was astonished to learn how porous its computer
systems have been.
"When
I found out they
hadn't changed passwords in over 10 years,
I hit the roof," said the tech expert, who ordered them all
changed last summer.
Interesting
because it is local and because it is the B school that did the
study. Someone is thinking! (I'm gonna guess that dating sites were
studied because porn sites have been done too often.)
Some
dating websites do not remove GPS data from photos
January 13, 2012 by Dissent
While the majority
of dating websites do a good job of managing the privacy of their
users, a class research project at the University of Colorado
Boulder’s Leeds School of Business found that 21 of 90 dating
websites the class examined did not properly remove location data
from pictures uploaded by their users.
Read more on PhysOrg.com
[From
the article:
A
complete list of all the websites examined by the class is available
at http://leeds.colorado.edu/im/
I suspect that someone, somewhere has
done a study to determine how many cameras are required to cover a
given area. On the other hand, if they could get cameras for free
from the equivalent of DHS, why not?
UK: Use of CCTV in Welsh
schools: FOI request shows lack of compliance with fair processing
and FOI
January 12, 2012 by Dissent
It may have
sneaked under the radar in and around Xmas but an FOI request in
Wales to schools produced some alarming stats.
There are at least
2,840 cameras in schools across Wales, one school in
Cardiff has 40 cameras for around 190 pupils. Just over a
third of all the schools in Wales responded to the Freedom of
Information Act request asking about CCTV use on their premises.
That means that two thirds don’t do CCTV or worse than that they
didn‘t realise they had to reply to FOI requests.
Read more on Act
Now Training
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