Bruce Bigelow of the Union Tribune reported how a hacker gained accessed to personal computer files of students and staff at the University of San Diego. The information that the hacker accessed included confidential information such as social security numbers and home addresses.
Faculty and students were notified via a letter on Wednesday, after a breach in the computer’s security was discovered on November 14. According to Bigelow, the letter that was mailed failed to give any information on the security breach, or ways in which those affected could further protect themselves.
This is the first time a hacker has been able to access information at the University of San Diego. A similar computer security breach occurred at the University of California San Diego last year. However, some 380000 people were affected. The full details of the article is available here.
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The breech in security, was due to a random number generator. Computer science specialists at MIT discovered the flaw on a Windows 2000 based computer. The news has spread from this incident. The random number generator to represent passwords over encrypted sites was cracked. Either Windows is too widespread to expect any manner of privacy from some many hackers, or the system is faulty to begin with. I turn to the OS made by the hackers to protect themselves from similar attacks. Linux
is becoming more widespread with high ballers such
as Dell now adopting the system. Vista has left many users looking for new solutions.
I can't believe that these sort of things happen in a place like California. We need to be more careful in dealing with these people and these people have all the ability to hack any system.Please emphasize on integrity and moral values to all the kids while they are in school to prevent these sort of things.
It is really sad how careful we need to be these days. there is always someone out to take advantage of you. That is why I started a small blog http://virus-protection-and-removal.blogspot.com/, to review all the different anti virus and anti spyware packages out there.
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