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According to Lee, Illingworth was concerned that the confidential student information required to allow students to vote on the Web-based system would have been stored on a non-Harvard server that might have been susceptible to hacking...
...Dean Illingworth was afraid the registrar’s information would not be secure,” Lee said. “Dean Illingworth said we couldn’t go ahead with the elections if registrar data were made available on a non-Harvard server...
Harvard students hoping to avail themselves of bargain textbook prices at the UC Books website this year have instead been finding a message reading, “Internal server error...
Back in 1999, network administrators at the U.S. Department of Transportation noticed a problem: requests for information bombarding their network server. It looked like a classic denial-of-services attack, which overloads servers and crashes them. The perpetrator appeared to be a server in Maryland run by practitioners of the spiritual movement Falun Gong, which is persecuted in China. In fact, the Falun Gong server itself had come under attack by hackers who sought to disable both sites and leave Falun Gong bearing the blame. But the hackers blundered, leaving a digital address traceable to a computer at 14 East...
...make no mistake: security is the most important reason that demand is growing for customized IM and group-chat tools. Unlike corporate e-mail systems, which typically use networks and servers controlled by the client company, instant messages on the consumer-oriented IM systems move across public networks and through servers controlled by AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo--an arrangement in which sensitive business information is considered more vulnerable to eavesdropping by hackers. Says John Tang, an engineer at Sun Microsystems: "Companies don't feel comfortable sending messages out through their firewalls to a server that somebody else has control over...