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Re: [News] Windows Exposes Universities to Crackers

__/ [ Mathew P. ] on Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:56 \__

> On 2006-06-06, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> Students become more insecure as hackers go to colleges
>>
>> http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0605hackers05-ON.html
>>
>> Notice the ill use of the word "hackers". Also, the article does not
>> mention "Windows" _even once_, e.g.:
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| In April, the University of Texas discovered illegal access to 197,000
>>| Social Security numbers of students, alumni and employees. Ohio
>>| University confirmed its third security breach since April, together
>>| compromising 360,000 personal records and a number of patented data
>>| and intellectual property files.
>> `----
>>
>> These servers ran Windows and were pwned for _over a year_, without
>> anybody realising it.
> 
> I believe you Roy, but I was just wondering how you knew that?

One of the article I read mentioned that these were three (IIR-the number-C)
Windows servers. If only mainstream media made this more evident...

What, for instance, would you say about the tens of thousands of sites that
were hijacked and refaced by a Turkish cracker? What about all these DDOS
attacks? Or viruses? Or the phenomenal scale of SPAM? I am getting upset
just talking about it, so I'll go get some breakfast now...

Best wishes,

Roy

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