Authorities investigate hacking attack at University of California
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Authorities are trying to determine how a hacker gained access to a University of California computer that contained personal information for more than 1 million people, many of them recipients of an assistance program for the elderly.
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A non-campus computer and server that were hooked to the campus network without proper security precautions have been linked to a University of California, Berkeley, hacker
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By Holly K. Hacker, The Dallas Morning News  Dec. 14--The University of Texas at Dallas said Wednesday that more people may be affected by a computer attack than first believed, raising the total to 6,000 current and former students, faculty, staff and others.
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One of Harvard University&#39;s Web sites appeared on Monday to have been hacked, with its contents appearing on the BitTorrent file-sharing network.A compressed 125MB file claiming to be the database for the Web site of Harvard&#39;s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is available via the BitTorrent peer to peer network. The file is listed on The Pirate Bay, a Web site that indexes torrents, or small information files that coordinate the download of content from other users on BitTorrent.The Web site for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was offline on Monday.A note attached to the torrent claimed the file contained a backup of the site -- including some contacts files and other files associated with Joomla, an open-source content management system -- along with other various bits. It appears to be legitimate.The note&#39;s writer claims the stunt is intended to demonstrate the insecurity of Harvard&#39;s server. The writer also exposed what purport to be usernames and passwords belonging to two of the site&#39;s system administrators.&quot;Stupid people, you don&#39;t use a secure password,&quot; read a note preceding the sensitive information.As of Monday afternoon, the compromised file was being distributed by 11 users -- known in file-sharing terminology as &quot;seeders&quot; -- and was being downloaded by nine &quot;leechers,&quot; or those downloading the files.Harvard&#39;s media office was closed on Monday due to a national U.S. holiday.
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One of Harvard University's Web sites appeared on Monday to have been hacked, with its contents appearing on th...
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Personal information about 6,000 current and former University of Virginia faculty members may have been stolen by hackers.
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A state investigation team is examining whether hackers were involved in releasing a digital recording of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about a Hispanic legislator's fiery temper, a spokesman said.
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Hackers broke into a University of Virginia database that included Social Security numbers and other personal information about faculty members.
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The FBI is trying to find whoever hacked into a computer at the University of California at Berkeley. The computer contained personal information -- including social security numbers -- of nearly 1.5 million
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By RANDY KENNER,  kenner@knews.com  The University of Tennessee mailed out letters Thursday to nearly 36,000 people whose personal information was on a UT computer accessed by a hacker for several months beginning last August.
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A computer hacker accessed names and Social Security numbers of about 1.4 million Californians after breaking into a University of California, Berkeley, computer system.
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SAN FRANCISCO A university computer scientist and two of his students have discovered a potentially serious security flaw in the desktop search tool for personal computers that was recently distributed by Google.
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Servers that managed global internet traffic have been subjected to a concerted attack by hackers.
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A visiting scholar whose computer has been linked to a hacker attack at the University of California, Berkeley, released a statement late Friday saying she believed her equipment
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California university officials have warned nearly 600,000 students and faculty that they might be exposed to identity theft following incidents where computer hard drives loaded with their private information were lost or hacked into.    Since January, at least 580,000 people who had personal information about them stored in university computers received warnings they might be at risk...
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Hackers revealed exploit code for JavaScript vulnerability.
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A computer hacker accessed names  and Social Security numbers of about 1.4 million Californians  after breaking into a University of California, Berkeley,  computer system in perhaps the worst attack of its kind ever  suffered by the school, officials said on Tuesday.