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Wodarz, Nan – School Business Affairs, 2001
A computer virus is a program that replicates itself, in conjunction with an additional program that can harm a computer system. Common viruses include boot-sector, macro, companion, overwriting, and multipartite. Viruses can be fast, slow, stealthy, and polymorphic. Anti-virus products are described. (MLH)
Descriptors: Computer Security, Computer Software, Electronic Mail, Elementary Secondary Education
Huwe, Terence K. – Computers in Libraries, 2005
The author of this column describes several instances in which secure data on computers were compromised. In each of these instances, a different route was involved in gaining access to the secure data--one by office-based theft, one by hacking, and one by burglary. Is is proposed that the most difficult factor to guarantee in the protection of…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Security, Electronic Libraries, Information Management
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Rajala, Judith B. – T.H.E. Journal, 2004
A computer virus is a program--a piece of executable code--that has the unique ability to replicate. Like biological viruses, computer viruses can spread quickly and are often difficult to eradicate. They can attach themselves to just about any type of file, and are spread by replicating and being sent from one individual to another. Simply having…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Computer Software, Computer Mediated Communication, Internet
Svetcov, Eric – Technology & Learning, 2005
This article provides a list of the essential steps to keeping a school's or district's network safe and sound. It describes how to establish a security architecture and approach that will continually evolve as the threat environment changes over time. The article discusses the methodology for implementing this approach and then discusses the…
Descriptors: Costs, Computer Networks, Computer Security, Educational Technology
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Bergren, Martha Dewey – Journal of School Nursing, 2004
School nurses access an enormous amount of information through the Internet. Although most avid computer users are savvy to the threat of viruses to the integrity of data, many who surf the Web do not know that their data and the functioning of their computer is at risk to another hidden threat--spyware. This article will describe spyware, why it…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Confidentiality, Risk, Computer Software
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Black, Thomas C.; Mohr, John – College and University, 2004
In this electronic age, where information is digital and service is virtual, the registrar profession is changing rapidly to keep up with increasing standards and expectations. EDI and now XML standards enable system-to-system exchanges of academic records information. While many of the registrar's profession display student academic records under…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Technological Advancement, Computer Security, Information Management
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Cordes, Christofer Sean – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2005
Spyware is the general term that describes a collection of technologies that help external parties in "gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge." In addition to the minor annoyances spyware generates, such as redirected pages, redirected searches, and pop-up ads, a spyware infection can have more malicious…
Descriptors: Internet, Prevention, Computer Security, Information Technology
Riley, Sheila – Technology & Learning, 2007
It is not always easy to find the balance between protecting students from Internet dangers and distractions and reaping its benefits--but it is certainly on every district's tech priority list. Sharnell Jackson, chief e-learning officer for the 415,000-student Chicago Public Schools, and Miguel Guhlin, director of instructional technology…
Descriptors: Computer Security, School Safety, Computer Mediated Communication, Parent Education
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Yi, Qing; Zhang, Jinming; Chang, Hua-Hua – ETS Research Report Series, 2006
Chang and Zhang (2002, 2003) proposed several baseline criteria for assessing the severity of possible test security violations for computerized tests with high-stakes outcomes. However, these criteria were obtained from theoretical derivations that assumed uniformly randomized item selection. The current study investigated potential damage caused…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Test Items, Computer Security
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Jackson, Robert; Frolick, Mark N. – Educause Quarterly, 2003
Studied a server security breach at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, to highlight personnel roles, detection of the compromised server, policy enforcement, forensics, and the proactive search for other servers threatened in the same way. (SLD)
Descriptors: Computer Security, Computer Uses in Education, Crime, Educational Policy
Neray, Phil – Online Libraries and Microcomputers, 1997
Discusses security problems and solutions for networked organizations with Internet connections. Topics include access to private networks from electronic mail information; computer viruses; computer software; corporate espionage; firewalls, that is computers that stand between a local network and the Internet; passwords; and physical security.…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Security, Computer Software, Corporations
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Lester, Dan – Library Computing, 1999
An experienced library technology manager relates what happened in the wake of a serious library computer virus attack, which he accidentally unleashed. The narrative describes the combination of coincidences, mistakes, assumptions, and delays that caused the incident, and outlines the 10 key lessons learned. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Security, Electronic Mail, Library Equipment, Library Networks
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Ricart, Glenn – EDUCAUSE Review, 2000
Discusses the impact of the Internet, particularly on higher education. Highlights include a history of the development of the Internet; a leadership plan for higher education; authentication of personal identity; security; information quality; the concept of Internet time; and future possibilities. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Security, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Internet
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Aldridge, Alicia; White, Michele; Forcht, Karen – Internet Research, 1997
Lack of security is perceived as a major roadblock to doing business online. This article examines system, user, and commercial transaction privacy on the World Wide Web and discusses methods of protection: operating systems security, file and data protection, user education, access restrictions, data authentication, perimeter and transaction…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Business, Computer Security, Government Role
Foster, Andrea L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how as colleges keep more information about students in electronic records, institutions struggle for ways to make sure only the right people gain access. (EV)
Descriptors: Computer Security, Confidential Records, Disclosure, Information Policy
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