A file containing the personal information of current and former Colorado State University-Pueblo students was accessed last spring by unauthorized users.
Malware may have allowed attackers to make off with the personal information of thousands of people connected to Indiana University Health Goshen Hospital.
Hackers accessed a sensitive computer server containing the personal information of faculty and students at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond.
A 21-year-old man pleaded guilty this week to infecting computers with malware at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, prosecutors said. Daniel Fowler of Kansas City, Mo. admitted to, beginning in 2009, taking remote control of the compromised computers -- with the help of a co-conspirator -- in order to download personal data on students, alumni, faculty and staff; transfer money into their personal student accounts and attempt to change their grades. In one case, they used a thumb drive to install the keylogging trojan on a university administrator's computer Fowler faces up to 15 years in prison. His co-conspirator, Joseph Camp, 27, of New York state, who was caught after he tried t sell some of the stolen data for $35,000, is scheduled for trial in the fall, according to reports.
October 20, 2010
Learning, teaching and scholarship is not restricted anymore to the campus, says Dennis Devlin, the CISO of Brandeis University, who will be a featured speaker at next month's SC World Congress
