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6/27/2008

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Delivering Slices of Network Securely at USC: By Dian Schaffhauser; When Richard Nelson's IT team at the University of Southern California's Information Science's Institute (ISI) decided to make an internally developed research administration application available to other groups on campus, it faced a unique security challenge: how to provide access to the program itself without also handing over broader access to other resources on its network.

Campus Security News

VMware Finds Home on Campus in Disaster Recovery Planning: Three colleges--Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom--have gone public with their use of virtualization software from VMware to manage growth and prepare for disaster recovery.
Microsoft Advisory Targets SQL Injection Attacks: Microsoft Tuesday issued a new security advisory after the discovery of "a recent escalation in a class of attacks" targeting Web sites. The exploits are associated with Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) and the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework, with SQL Server used as an entry vector for so-called SQL injection attacks.
Mobile Security To Surface in Sybase iAnywhere Suite: Sybase announced that by the end of June its mobile device management suite will be enhanced with antivirus and firewall technology. These new security components will appear in the company's iAnywhere Afaria management and security software. Combined with Afaria's mobile device authentication and encryption technology, the enhanced software is intended to provide protection for Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Blackberry mobile devices from viruses, data compromise, hackers and the effects of mobile device loss or theft.
Southeast Missouri State Says Former Employee Took Student Data: Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, MO has notified about 800 of its students that a former university employee recently was found in possession of computer data files containing their names and Social Security numbers.
Universities Deploy Procera Hardware to Prioritize Network Traffic: Korea University in Seoul and Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia are both using Procera's PacketLogic PL10000 hardware to gain visibility into network application traffic and control over non-academic use of network bandwidth.
Dartmouth Launches 2-Week Crash Course in Security: Dartmouth's cyber security research and education arm, the Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS), recently launched a two-week introduction to computer security in a program called SISMAT, or Secure Information Systems Mentoring and Training.
Survey: Many Microsoft Patches Are Going Uninstalled: The results of an online test conducted by U.K. anti-virus firm Sophos found that more often than not, PC users don't install Microsoft's monthly patches.
New Bluetooth Patch Fixes XP Security Hole: Microsoft on Thursday announced that it was reissuing a "critical" patch relating to Bluetooth wireless technology that was released last week as part of its June update cycle. The patch addresses how Bluetooth interoperates with Windows components and applications.