Authorities are investigating a missing unencrypted laptop containing personal information of 596 patients from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School. School officials discovered the missing laptop August 2 from a locked closet in a University of Texas Physicians orthopedic clinic. Source: … [Read more...] about UTHealth loses computer with patient info
A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty to installing backdoors on several government, university, telecoms, and commercial systems and offering access to them in exchange for payment. Among others, the man offered undercover agents access to U.S. Department of Energy supercomputers that he had compromised via universities that had access to them. Source: … [Read more...] about Universities used for Espionage
Emory University is investigating a breach of its information technology infrastructure that is similar to incidents recently reported by other academic institutions and large organizations. We are working closely with information security consultants and law enforcement to determine the source and impact of this breach. We are not aware at this time of any protected health … [Read more...] about Yet another University breached . . .
Colleges and universities are putting the financial and personal information of students and parents at risk by allowing them to submit such data to the school in unencrypted email. That was a finding in a survey released Monday by Halock Security Labs after surveying 162 institutions of higher learning in the United States. Half the institutions allowed sensitive … [Read more...] about Universities putting sensitive data at risk via unsecure email
University of Delaware is the latest of the high-learning institutions in the US to have been hit with a cyber attack that resulted in a data breach. Read about it at the Source: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=15325 … [Read more...] about 72k people affected by university hack