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Catch a clue from an EDU: Universities that get security right

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Dissent

Mary K. Pratt reports:

Professor Corey Schou was working in his school’s library when he realized his computer was picking up a particularly strong Wi-Fi signal.

Normally that would be welcome news. But Schou knew that spot was usually a dead zone, which meant something was probably amiss. So Schou, a professor of informatics at Idaho State University, set out with some of the school’s IT workers to solve the mystery.

Turns out a young man in a nearby coffee shop was causing trouble. “He was running an access point and broadcasting without credentials on the same address as the university’s access point, and people were logging in,” Schou says.

Read more on Computerworld.

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