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US students arrested for fake snow day announcement on high school website

US students arrested for fake snow day announcement on high school website

Two students at an Ohio high school were arrested last week and accused of illegally accessing their school district website to announce an unauthorised snow day.
Frank Washkuch Feb 13 2007 6:41AM Security
Scottish school kids get free PDAs

Scottish school kids get free PDAs

National Lottery funded scheme also offers free wireless Internet access.
Clement James Jan 23 2007 9:12AM Hardware
UK school saves thousands with open source network

UK school saves thousands with open source network

Infrastructure includes email and proxy filtering systems.
Clement James Sep 1 2006 10:17AM Software
Back to school

Back to school

The message is clear for employees at the 19 Exchange Bank branches scattered across Sonoma County in California: Protect valuable customer information or risk damaging the financial institution’s good name.
Dan Kaplan Jun 6 2006 7:58PM Security
Washington state settles school spam case

Washington state settles school spam case

Washington state has settled a lawsuit with two Californian spammers accused of bombarding the Seattle School District and other organizations with junk email.
René Millman May 24 2006 12:25PM Security
Researchers take VoIP security back to school

Researchers take VoIP security back to school

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued four awards totaling $600,000 to the University of North Texas (UNT) to lead a multi-university collaboration to develop a geographically distributed, secure test bed to analyze VoIP vulnerabilities.
William Eazel Apr 13 2006 2:30PM Security
Kids more likely to take online risks at home rather than at school

Kids more likely to take online risks at home rather than at school

While home computer use for fun, games and emailing friends is common among children, it also offers kids more opportunity to engage in risky internet activities, recent research has warned.
William Eazel Nov 7 2005 12:30PM Security
Canadian University takes IT security back to school

Canadian University takes IT security back to school

Ryerson University, a Toronto, Ontario-based university, has completed a wide ranging IT security infrastructure upgrade centering on deployment of over 40 enterprise security appliances to protect its IT network, which supports over 50,000 student, employee and alumni users.
William Eazel Oct 31 2005 10:27AM Security
Old school rules, new school tools

Old school rules, new school tools

It was a great security conference. The sponsored lunch had gone down a treat, the wine was excellent. The next speaker was being announced: "...will talk on the CIA Principles of Information Security." Yawn, that guy must be old enough to predate punched cards.
Andrew Yeomans Jul 29 2005 2:16PM Security
Vigilar inks deal to acquire Intense School

Vigilar inks deal to acquire Intense School

Vigilar, an Atlanta-based information security consulting company, has agreed to acquire IT and security training firm Intense School.
Marcia Savage Jun 15 2005 10:20PM Security
Carnegie Mellon business school notifies 19,000 of breach

Carnegie Mellon business school notifies 19,000 of breach

Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business has sent out 19,000 notices to students, faculty and graduates about a security breach that may have exposed their personal data.
Marcia Savage Apr 21 2005 8:27PM Security
Old school virus promises expensive Christmas

Old school virus promises expensive Christmas

A novel virus with the capacity to delete entire hard drives has been unleashed. The virus, spread via floppy disk and CD-ROM, performs its destructive action on Christmas day.
David Quainton Oct 15 2004 5:19PM Security
Citec hits sourcing sweet spot with school and mining deals

Citec hits sourcing sweet spot with school and mining deals

Queensland service provider Citec has won two more managed services deals in a series of contracts and renewals expected to spur its previously flat revenues into steady growth.
Fleur Doidge Aug 31 2004 12:00AM Networking
SDG deploys five-way storage for Melbourne Business School

SDG deploys five-way storage for Melbourne Business School
Fleur Doidge Jun 11 2004 12:00AM Storage
Ohio school disciplines 13-year-old hacker

Ohio school disciplines 13-year-old hacker

Proof that hackers are getting younger all the time came earlier this month, when a 13-year-old student in Ohio was suspended for 10 days because of his alleged hacking of the school's computer network.
Steve Gold Mar 12 2004 3:23PM Security

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