IT NEWS
Academic Publishers Protest Google Online Library Plans
D'es the Google library project, which would digitize large
library collections, threaten copyrights and sales of academic
publishers? The San Francisco Chronicle reports that
Peter Givler, executive director of the Association of American
University Presses, sent a letter to Google saying the library
project "appears to involve systematic infringement of copyright
on a massive scale." (San Francisco Chronicle)
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8,000 Passwords May Go Missing at Michigan
Community College
Administrators at Jackson Community College
report that a hacker left (non-working) software that could
have left him able to steal more than 8,000 passwords; many
of which were users' social security numbers. (The Jackson
Citizen Patriot)
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Hacker at Middle Tennessee State U. Raises Few Fears
Is complacency about security a new trend? MTSU notified 25,000 students,
faculty, and staff recently that their personal information
may have been revealed. No one's busy enough to care much,
and everyone thinks that IT staff will handle things for them.
(Daily News Journal)
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Purdue Issues Alert to Current and Past Employees
Maybe we have no choice but to be complacent, because privacy
loss via information technology is becoming as ubiquitous
as wireless connectivity and there's little we can do about
it: Here's Purdue University (ID) with its
third security breach this year, alerting 11,000 people that
their information may have been accessed. (Indiana Business)
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