Criminals 'target tech students'
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Organised crime gangs are targeting students in a bid to recruit skilled hackers, says a report.
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By Holly K. Hacker, The Dallas Morning News  Dec. 13--A computer network attack at the University of Texas at Dallas may have exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information for 5,000 current and former students, faculty and others, campus officials said Tuesday.
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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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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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Organized gangs have adopted "KGB-style"  tactics to hire high-flying computer students to commit  Internet crime, a report said on Friday.
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Techniques designed to make suspects incriminate themselves through calls or texts
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Further education colleges are warned they need to prevent Islamic extremists recruiting among students.
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NEWPORT - A pair of 14-year-olds has been accused of breaking into two local schools and stealing 10 computers, according to the police.   "It appears they had been into the schools a number of times. They had forced their way in through windows," said Lt. Michael Brennan.
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If you read the news, you'd think that most cyber criminals are lonely, maladjusted teenage hackers stealing credit card numbers from their windowless rooms. But the real damage is being done by organized syndicates, and they're playing for much higher stakes.
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Plus: Spammers go to jail, and laptops get LED backlights.
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Computer hackers captured the names, Social Security numbers and other information of more than 30,000 students and staff at George Mason University earlier this month, school officials said Monday.
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Security checks on foreign students in "proliferation-risk" science subjects could deter them, scientists warn.
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The BTK serial killer investigation is being used as a teaching tool in college criminal justice courses around the country.
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Social network sites look like they will be a popular target for hi-tech criminals in 2008, say security experts.
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Researchers looking to root out computer attacks hope that speed kills.
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The university is the latest among a growing list of companies, colleges and government agencies to reveal that its computer security had been breached.
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Cracking down on college students, the music industry is sending thousands more complaints to top universities this school year than it did last year as it targets music illegally downloaded over campus computer networks.