With the help of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and its own campus police, the IT staff at Valdosta State University is continuing to investigate an incident of unauthorized access to a campus server.
As part of an effort to increase campus policing, California State University Monterey Bay has deployed a new video surveillance system. The project, begun in 2009, will use a system for managing enterprise-scale deployments of media servers, cameras, and users.
A company that monitors the Internet for unauthorized exposure of information recently informed New Mexico State University that data about 300 students had appeared on a computer unaffiliated with the university.
With the Internet antics of 54,000 students and 3,000 faculty and staff members, security analyst Brandon Johnson at Salt Lake Community College can easily chew up a day to figure out whose computer on campus is doing the dirty work of a botnet or what user was logged into a particular computer at a given time when law enforcement or HR comes calling.
A group of university researchers that found success in taking over control of a major criminal botnet to learn how it operates has been funded to develop a system that can automatically identify attacks on the Internet.
A series of "telephone-game"-like miscommunications and the subsequent misfiring of a campus security worker's gun pushed the students and staff of Oklahoma City Community College into lockdown mode in late February.
MvixUSA has announced two new high-definition digital signage players, the Mvix DS HDPro and Mvix DS Elite. The two new players support full 1080p high definition video and are networkable.
As expected, Microsoft released two "important" patches in its March security update Tuesday.
Radiant Logic, which sells virtual directory software, has released an updated version of its application suite that adds new security features, as well as functionality for Microsoft SharePoint environments.
Plagiarism appears to be endemic in applications, according to a recently published study by iParadigms. The company examined 453,000 applications submitted to institutions of higher ed and found that 44 percent of the personal statements contained matching text and that 36 percent contained significant matching text--suggesting, according to iParadigms, plagiarism, collusion, or the use of recycled or purchased documents.