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Panettieri, Joseph C. – Campus Technology, 2007
There's no silver bullet to information security; universities must continue to keep their antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall, and patch management systems in good working order. These days, the largest target for hackers appears to be university databases. Now, universities are searching for new solutions to safeguard those systems. This article…
Descriptors: Databases, Best Practices, Higher Education, Technology Planning
Carnevale, Dan – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
The USA Patriot Act is having far-reaching effects on the kinds of data that wind up on some academics' computers in Canada. Canadian colleges, responding to provincial laws passed in reaction to the Patriot Act, are preventing professors from entering the United States with students' private data on their laptops and limiting the locations of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Foreign Countries, Federal Legislation
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Landry, Brett J. L.; Koger, M. Scott – Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 2006
Disasters happen all the time; yet despite this, many organizations are caught unprepared or make unrealistic assumptions. These factors create environments that will fail during a disaster. Most information technology (IT) curricula do not cover disaster recovery (DR) plans and strategies in depth. The unfortunate result is that most new computer…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Information Technology, Misconceptions, Natural Disasters
Borja, Rhea R. – Education Week, 2006
While schools rightly fear break-ins to their computer systems by professional criminals, students are increasingly giving educators almost as much to worry about. Reports of students' gaining access to school networks to change grades, delete teachers' files, or steal data are becoming more common, experts say, and many districts remain highly…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Computer Networks, Students, Crime
Watkins, Donna – Computers in Libraries, 2006
Wireless hotspots are popping up in local coffee shops everywhere. Anyone with a wireless-ready laptop or PDA can surf the Internet at one of these hotspots. The same is now true for all 32 branches of the Orange County Public Library (OCPL) in California. Though many public library systems are moving toward wireless access, most require patrons…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Telecommunications, Public Libraries, Internet
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Workman, Sue; Childs, Melody; Causey, Jim; Moberly, Brent; Fitzpatrick, Christine – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2006
At the beginning of an academic year, thousands of students move into campus housing on Indiana University's Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses within a three-day period, and more than 96 percent arrive with at least one personal computer (and possibly also a PDA, cell phone, and gaming system), and most expect to connect to the campus network…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Student Personnel Services, Information Technology, Computer Security
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Adler, M. Peter – EDUCAUSE Review, 2006
The increased number of government-mandated and private contractual information security requirements in recent years has caused higher education security professionals to view information security as another aspect of regulatory or contractual compliance. The existence of fines, penalties, or loss (including bad publicity) has also increased the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Publicity, Computer Security, Colleges
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Descy, Don E. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2006
A computer virus is defined as a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer. The existence of computer viruses--or the necessity of avoiding viruses--is part of using a computer. With the advent of the Internet, the door was opened wide for these…
Descriptors: Computers, Computer Security, Crime Prevention, Internet
Wada, Kent – Syllabus, 2003
Considers how to provide appropriate levels of information technology (IT) security in the higher education environment. Discusses implications of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the USA Patriot Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, California Information Practices Act, VISA USA Cardholder Information Security…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Higher Education, Information Technology
Enderle, Jerry – School Planning & Management, 2003
Discusses issues of security for school computer networks, including protection against viruses and hackers. (EV)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Security, School Security
Bloomquist, Jane; Musa, Atif – Technology & Learning, 2004
Imagine a completely wireless school, an open network in which all students and staff can roam around using laptops or handheld computers to browse the Internet, access files and applications on the school server, and communicate with each other and the world via e-mail. It's a great picture--and at some schools the future is already here. But…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Networks, Computer Security
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Martin, Kelly – T.H.E. Journal, 2004
It used to be that Internet threats were aimed at disabling their targets. The most common payload of yesterday's viruses, worms and other malicious code either caused system instability or, perhaps, deleted certain files. In many cases, these threats announced their arrival by flashing messages on the computer screen or causing some other…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Computer Software, Privacy, Internet
Svetcov, Eric – Technology & Learning, 2004
When it comes to security, many people do not know what they do not know. Consider for example, an administrator who leaves her password taped under her keyboard, or a teacher who doesn't change his password (ever!) or can't be bothered to log out or lock the computer, all the firewalls and antivirus programs in the world will not protect a…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Security, Professional Training
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Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael; Gomez-Pena, Guillermo – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2004
The leaked documents of the tech-illa network are investigated. It was unclear that if the information was left in the cracked server on purpose, to be distributed by the hackers as a decoy.
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Networks, Computer Security, Crime
Cheng, Kirby – Computers in Libraries, 2005
When I first realized I'd been hacked, I thought, 'Oh, my God, they really did it!" While trying to recover from the shock, I had to call the supervisors of the departments with services affected by the loss of the library's server. In a seemingly calm voice, I told them one by one, "Sorry to let you know, our server is down; it has been hacked…
Descriptors: Internet, Libraries, Computer Security, Library Services
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