Massive security breach at UCLA
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Details on 800,000 may have been exposed UCLA has warned 800,000 current and former students that their personal details might have been exposed to a hacker who broke into the university's computer systems. Staff members are also affected by what's being described as one of the biggest information disclosure breaches on record.â¦
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Los Angeles International Airport  was shut down on Saturday after an apparent security breach, an  airport spokesman said.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - 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.
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A hacker has infiltrated a  University of California, Los Angeles database containing the  personal information on 800,000 people, the school said on  Tuesday, in one of the worst computer breaches ever at a U.S.  university.
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Computers belonging to the U.S. government, contractors and companies in the transportation industry were hit by a targeted computer attack in July that yielded password information for hundreds of Internet and intranet Web sites, a computer security vendor said Tuesday.
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For more than a year, an intruder has been accessing private information on students and staff, among others, the university says.
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Three of the 13 computers used to manage global internet traffic are hacked overnight. It's one of the biggest attacks since 2002. By the Associated Press.
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Authorities are still working to determine who broke into the campus system Jan. 3 and how. University campuses present a particularly inviting security target, experts say, because their systems house large amounts of personal data. -The Washington Post
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UC Berkeley officials issued a statement of regret about a computer hacking that may have exposed the names and social security numbers of about 600,000 people.
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LOS ANGELES -- 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.
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A serious security hole in a wide swath of the company's antivirus products could let an outsider crash or hijack a computer.
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There&#39;s a wireless router gathering dust in Bob LaRocca&#39;s office. It&#39;s yours if you can hack into his network.First, some background: &#160;LaRocca is director of IT security with the School District of Palm Beach County in Florida, where he oversees a network of 60,000 computers in 175 schools and which he says covers more acres than any other school district east of the Mississippi River. Computer security has traditionally been a low priority in the public school system, but that&#39;s not the case in Palm Beach County.That&#39;s because a computer breach stung the school system in a very public way two years ago when local papers reported that Jeff Yorston, a student at one of the county&#39;s schools, got hold of an administrative password and gave himself an &quot;A&quot; in a French class he never took. He also managed to boost the grades of a few friends.Yorston was discovered when another student complained that her ex-boyfriend -- with worse grades than she had -- was accepted into the University of Florida while she had been rejected. He has since paid a fine and agreed to state supervision in connection with the charges, according to the Palm Beach Post.After an investigation, county officials discovered that they hadn&#39;t been hacked. Instead the breach occurred because of a leaked password. &quot;One of the administrators lent her password out to one of the students who was working on a project,&quot; LaRocca said. &quot;That&#39;s what happens when you share passwords. We could put $1 million worth of controls in place, but when I give you my password, all bets are off.&quot;LaRocca says that the grades-changing incident was &quot;a wake-up call for the district,&quot; which has now made security a top priority.Palm Beach County has spent more than $1.5 million over the past two years overhauling systems throughout the county&#39;s schools. It has upgraded the county&#39;s desktops with anti-virus, host intrusion prevention, and network access control software from McAfee. Network-based intrusion detection and content filtering have also been added, and the county is now logging its grading systems, which have much stricter access controls.The county has also made security awareness a priority, taking steps to educate users about safe online behavior.And that&#39;s where the hacking challenge comes in. LaRocca issued it as part of an April security awareness event held at county schools, setting up a target server that attackers would have to break into in order to claim the prize. This type of &quot;capture the flag&quot; game is popular at hacking conferences.Any students who might see the contest as a chance to hack the system, change their grades, and win a router need to think again. &quot;We set up a honeypot server that they specifically had to hack into and capture a flag,&quot; he said. &quot;We didn&#39;t say if you go in and change your grades you&#39;ll get a router.&quot;That hasn&#39;t deterred some attackers. Thanks to the publicity surrounding his Wi-Fi challenge, LaRocca says the schools are being hit by about 16,000 online attacks per day.Still, LaRocca says the insider threat remains his biggest concern. &quot;All my hackers are inside the network,&quot; he said. &quot;I&#39;m not too worried about the ones from the outside.&quot;
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It&#39;s not just the privacy issue of multiple users on a computer and the tool indexing everyone&#39;s contents anymore. According to a Rice University computer scientist, the flaw could allow an attacker to search
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COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 6  /PRNewswire/ -- Are hackers trying to get into your computer right now? And what are they up to? A study by the University of Maryland's A.
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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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The University of California, Los Angeles alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that their names and certain personal information were exposed after a hacker broke into a campus computer system.
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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.