Security/Privacy
- Colorado State Achieves 90% Student Participation in Emergency Notification System
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3/6/2008
Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, CO, said that 90 percent of its 25,000 student population has enrolled in its emergency text notification system. The campus implemented the system from Rave Wireless school-wide in September 2007. The program enables CSU to send text messages to subscribers in the event of an emergency.
- Sybase Updates Encryption Software for Windows Mobile Data
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3/4/2008
One of the biggest risks enterprises face in rolling out PDAs and smart phones is data getting into the wrong hands if a device is lost or stolen. Sybase Inc.'s iAnywhere business unit today is rolling out software it said will help developers address that threat.
- Study: The Year's Top-10 Web Application Vulnerabilities
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3/3/2008
Web applications, by far, dominate the list of application security vulnerabilities facing IT organizations. While 29 percent of vulnerabilities are attributable to network and infrastructure weaknesses, a full 71 percent are attributable to both open source and commercial Web applications, according to a report released recently by security firm Cenzic Inc., "Application Security Trend Report for Q4 2007."
- Brief: Power LogOn Brings Access Control to Campus Facilities
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2/28/2008
Security management technology provider Access Smart earlier this month debuted Power LogOn Administrator 4.0 for educational institutions. The solution includes features for identity management, transactions, and building and network access using smart card technology.
- SafetyCare Launches Wireless Emergency Response System
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2/28/2008
Security technology firm SafetyCare debuted a new emergency response system targeted toward education: SchoolTrak. The new system is designed to provide turnkey campus safety features for classrooms and other campus facilities through wireless technologies.
- Microsoft Releases System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1
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2/26/2008
Microsoft this weekend released an update to its System Center Operations Manager 2007, the company's infrastructure management solution. The final Service Pack 1 release has gone to manufacturing, and the update is also available for download online.
- Automated RBAC Java Security Tool Released
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2/22/2008
McLean, VA-based Advanced Modeling Concepts recently released a Java security tool designed to help developers add security to existing Java applications. The product adds role-based access control (RBAC) security via a tool called AfterthoughtSoft-Secure.
- Rave Upgrades Guardian Mobile Campus Safety System
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2/22/2008
Rave Wireless this week introduced an upgraded version of Rave Guardian, a personal safety system designed for college and university students. The forthcoming update, due this spring, expands cell phone and carrier options at participating universities.
- (ISC)² Launches Information Security Awards
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2/20/2008
Non-profit certification group (ISC)² Wednesday kicked off its 2008 information security awards program with plans to hand out $100,000 for post-graduate information security research projects. Scholarships of up to $12,500 will be given out to eight full-time students pursuing a master's degree in information security at an accredited university.
- Free Internet Filtering Service Launches
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2/20/2008
Free DNS service provider OpenDNS has launched its new, free Web filtering solution targeted toward education. The service taps into the expertise of IT professionals to create categories of Web sites that can be blocked by administrators with the click of a button (or two).
- 6 Dead in Northern Illinois University Shooting; Gunman a Former Grad Student
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2/14/2008
(Update 13, 9:25 p.m. PST) Six are confirmed dead in the shooting Thursday at Northern Illinois University's DeKalb campus, including the gunman, who died of a "self-inflicted gunshot" before police arrived on the scene. Four of those fatalities were dead on the scene; two died of their injuries later in the hospital. All of the injured were students, according to NIU President John G. Peters, including an injured graduate instructor. The gunman was a former NIU graduate student in sociology.
- Microsoft Releases 6 Critical Patches
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2/14/2008
For the February security bulletin release, Microsoft rolled out six "Critical" fixes--rather than the seven detailed in the advanced notice--and five "Important" items.
- University of Illinois Taps Progress Software for Enterprise Messaging
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2/13/2008
As part of its five-year, $200 million Banner enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation, the University of Illinois said it will deploy Progress SonicMQ to handle enterprise messaging. SonicMQ acts as middleware for transaction messages.
- Google, Microsoft, IBM, VeriSign, Yahoo Join OpenID Board
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2/12/2008
In a move that could help deliver single sign-on to the masses, Google, Microsoft, IBM, VeriSign and Yahoo have joined a consortium that backs a common federated identity specification. The vendors jointly announced their membership to the OpenID Foundation's board Feb. 7. The OpenID spec allows individuals to create one user name, password, and other credentials for logging onto multiple Web sites that support the spec.
- Miami Dade College Signs on with County-wide Emergency Alert System
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2/11/2008
Miami Dade College (MDC) is enhancing its emergency communication on campus by joining the Miami-Dade County network implementation of WENS, the wireless emergency notification system run by Inspiron Logistics.
- OpenDNS To Launch Free Web Filtering for Education
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2/8/2008
Just what is "people-powered security?" It's how OpenDNS describes its forthcoming Web filtering solution targeted toward education. The service, set to launch later this month, taps into the expertise of IT professionals in schools (and in the private sector) to create a sort of reverse social tagging, blocking potentially dangerous sites based on users' experiences. Like all of OpenDNS' services, this new one is free, including support for deployment and integration in existing campus infrastructures.
- 3 Dead at Louisiana College
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2/8/2008
Two students were killed today in a classroom at Louisiana Technical College's Baton Rouge campus by a third student, who is also reported dead. According to information released by LTC, the shooter and the two victims were all women in their mid- to early 20s. An investigation is underway, and, as of this writing, no motive has yet been reported.
- P2P File Sharing on Campus: The Battle Isn't Over
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2/8/2008
The battle between the recording industry and higher education over student piracy has been raging for years. Are long-term trends emerging, and what do they mean for colleges and universities?
- Smart ID Cards and Locks Facing Resistance at New Jersey University
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2/8/2008
Faculty unions at Kean University in Union, NJ are fighting a new policy requiring employees to wear identification cards on campus. According to coverage in The Star-Ledger, the university spent about $30,000 on a pilot program to install keyless locks on classroom doors last fall. The locks can only be opened by swiping an authorized ID card.
- Use of Live Customer Data in Application Testing Still Widespread
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2/8/2008
A survey released by Compuware Corp. and the Ponemon Institute shows "an overwhelming majority of organizations surveyed risk compromising critical information by using actual customer data for the development and testing of applications."
- Network Access Control Adds Self-Service Registration for Users and Devices
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2/7/2008
Lockdown Networks has upgraded its network access control (NAC) solution, Lockdown Enforcer, implementing new features that simplify initial setup and user and device registration. A NAC ensures that only authorized users and policy-compliant devices can be added to an enterprise networks and provides a centralized mechanism for responding to malware outbreaks and other security events.
- Flash Ads Serving up Malware on Popular Sites
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2/7/2008
Malicious Flash banner ads have been surfacing on major web sites including Expedia.com, Rhapsody.com and MayoClinic.com in the last month, according to media reports. Users who click on the banners, which advertise a digital music service, a student dating service, and disk cleaning software, are redirected to Web sites that proceed to install malware on their PCs.
- SecureVue Rolls Out in Appliance Form
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2/7/2008
eIQnetworks has released its flagship security and compliance product, SecureVue, in appliance versions, one a central server and the other a regional server. SecureVue 3000 Central Server has 1.8 terabyte storage capacity and supports up to 15,000 events per second. The SecureVue 2000 Regional Server-- deployed in conjunction with the SecureVue 3000 Central Server for distributed environments--offers 1 TB storage capacity and supports up to 6,000 events per second.
- St. Bernard Debuts h-Series Security Appliances
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2/5/2008
St. Bernard Software this week launched a new line of security appliances, the new iPrism h-Series. Designed for enterprises of all sizes, the new models boast a 200 percent performance increase over their predecessors, according to the company.
- Web 2.0 Threats Loom Large for IT
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1/25/2008
With the seemingly exponential growth of Web 2.0 technologies, IT professionals in education--and all other sectors, for that matter--face new challenges as control over technology slips away and moves into the hands of users.
