Word: network
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...This policy is very much in line with the current policy--it just makes more explicit the support network for students," said Amanda Olson, a Harvard affiliate who researched and helped draft the new policy...
...hacker ran a program over the Internet that gave him root, or universal, access to my machine. This allowed the hacker to start a packet sniffer to gather people's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) passwords when they logged into the network," the resident said...
Packet sniffers gather all information, including usernames and passwords, passing over the network while the program is running. This information is then available to the hacker, according to Osterberg...
Just seven years ago Harvard was behind in getting students and faculty networked. In 1991, Ludwick and his company, SynOptics, now a part of Northern Telecom, sold Harvard the computer hardware needed to complete the network installation quickly...
According to Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS), the FAS network is now a high-speed, fiber optic data network with about 12,000 connections. High-speed access to the Internet is available through the Harvard Core Network...