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Security Incident at the Graduate School of Journalism

During a recent computer security check it was discovered that a hacker may have gained access to the Graduate School of Journalism’s primary Web server. The server contained much of the same material visible on the public face of the web site. However, the server also contained a database with Social Security numbers belonging to 493 individuals who applied for admission to the journalism school between September 2007 and May 2009.

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OH: Dining Services faces security debacle

It's been a rough end of the term for Ohio State Dining Services. The director of Dining Services, Thomas Stevenson, has resigned from his position, and 350 student employees had their social security numbers accidentally leaked in an e-mail.

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IA: Potential Information Breach at Kirkwood Community College

Kirkwood Community College has issued an alert to around 16-hundred people because of a potential data breach.

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OR: OHSU Alerts Patients After Laptop Stolen

Oregon Health & Science University is contacting 1,000 patients after a physician’s laptop was stolen from a car parked at the doctor’s Washington County home.

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Laptop theft prompts NKU letter

A Northern Kentucky University employee’s laptop computer - which contained personal information about some current and former students — was stolen from a restricted area last month, university officials said.

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Personal Information of Hundreds of UCCS Students May Be Compromised

Imagine finding out that criminals may have gotten their hands on your social security number. That's exactly what some UCCS students are dealing with. The university is notifying nearly 800 students and alumni that some of their personal information may have been on a stolen laptop.

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Hackers gained access to UMass info

Nearly a year ago, hackers broke into a computer server that contained Social Security numbers and “a very limited amount of” credit card information for graduates of University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the university announced recently.

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WHIPPS CROSS: Hospital hit by computer virus

WHIPPS Cross University Hospital has been hit by a "crippling" computer virus, which has knocked out a large proportion of its IT system.

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Laptops containing PII for 250,000 stolen from Canada hospital

Two laptops, which contained personal information for hundreds of thousands of patients, were recently stolen from University of Alberta Hospital in Canada.

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Stolen VCU computer puts Social Security numbers at risk

The Social Security numbers of 17,214 current and former Virginia Commonwealth University students may have been put at risk when a computer was stolen from a locked room in Cabell Library.

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American woman Elizabeth Thrasher faces jail over 'cyber-bullying'

A woman is facing up to four years in jail for allegedly posting photographs and the mobile phone number of a teenage girl on a website and suggesting the girl wanted sex.

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Facebook Faces Privacy Lawsuit

Five Facebook Inc. users Monday sued the social-networking site in California's Orange County Superior Court, alleging that the social networking site violates several state laws aimed at protecting consumers' privacy.

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Can DREs Provide Long-Lasting Security? The Case of Return-Oriented Programming and the AVC Advantage

A secure voting machine design must withstand new attacks devised throughout its multi-decade service lifetime. In this paper, we give a case study of the longterm security of a voting machine, the Sequoia AVC Advantage, whose design dates back to the early 80s.

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Twitter suspends accounts of users with infected computers

Twitter is suspending the accounts of some users whose computers have fallen victim to a well-known piece of malicious software that has targeted other sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

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Tenenbaum hit with $675,000 fine for music piracy

In another big victory for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a federal jury has fined Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum $675,000 for illegally downloading and distributing 30 copyrighted songs.

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