Eric Ferreri reports: A prominent cancer researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill spent at least $350,000 fighting for her job. It wasn’t enough. Bonnie Yankaskas, an epidemiologist in the medical school, retires at the end of 2011, as stipulated in a settlement that restores her rank and full salary. UNC-CH officials wanted to fire Yankaskas, whom they…
Category: Education Sector
Central Oregon Community College Hackers May Have Compromised Student Information
1110 KBND points us to a statement on the Central Oregon Community College web site: Central Oregon Community College officials have identified some information on the COCC web site that may have been exposed as part of the recent unauthorized intrusion. COCC has taken down the web site while it works with law enforcement officials…
Ie: TCD reports data breach
Another Irish college is reporting a data breach: A file containing the names of students and staff of Trinity College Dublin, along with their addresses, ID numbers and email addresses, was “inadvertently” made accessible on a local network, the college said. TCD said today it had reported the incident to the Data Protection Commissioner. The…
WA: Teacher Passwords Stolen, Grades Hacked At 3 Seattle High Schools
Someone has stolen teacher passwords and changed grades in a Seattle Public Schools computer system, the district said in an email to teachers obtained Thursday by KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. The district’s IT staff found the theft of network login passwords “appears to have been going on for the last few weeks, possibly longer,” the…
CA: On-campus computer thefts aimed at Faculty Association
Chenin Burnett-Doering reports: Computers were allegedly stolen from the PCC [Pasadena City College] Faculty Association office as well as from the office of its President, Roger Marheine over spring break. Marheine was upset to learn about the theft. “In both cases a ‘master key’ was used, as there was no sign of forced entry. Thus,…
Defending the Digital Gates: Universities and Cyber Security
Kevin Lizarazo writes: More than a year and a half ago, in a computer lab in Stony Brook University, Peter Yeh and his friend sat down at their terminals with one goal: to hack into a computer system. The target was the school’s SOLAR System, a web-based service for students and faculty to manage their…