School settles webcam spying allegations 

School settles webcam spying allegations

In Risk - By Liam Tung, 19 October 2010 9:53 AM
Pays out US$610,000.
School laptop spying case inspires new law 

School laptop spying case inspires new law

In Risk - By Iain Thomson, 19 April 2010 9:09 AM
Court filings show thousands of images taken of students.
NSW to relax content blocking on school netbooks 

NSW to relax content blocking on school netbooks

In Web/client - By Ry Crozier, Munir Kotadia, 16 March 2010 10:18 AM
Home privileges talked up as 60,000 new devices announced.
FBI investigating school spycam case 

FBI investigating school spycam case

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 25 February 2010 8:40 AM
MacBook webcam scandal escalates.
FBI investigating school spycam case 

FBI investigating school spycam case

In Risk - By Iain Thomson, 23 February 2010 12:19 PM
MacBook spying row attracts the authority's interests.
High school hacker looking at 38 years 

High school hacker looking at 38 years

In Hackers - By Shaun Nichols, 20 June 2008 10:08 AM
A California high school student could spend nearly four decades in prison for hacking into his school's computer system..
US school network falls victim to child hacker 

US school network falls victim to child hacker

In Risk - By Richard Thurston, 27 May 2008 2:12 PM
Local authority races to upgrade its system security as the second teenager in five months breaches its network defences, copying 55,000 records
Duke University Law School website infiltrated by hackers 

Duke University Law School website infiltrated by hackers

In Web/client - By Dan Kaplan, 6 December 2007 11:47 AM
Hackers, possibly trying to embed links to improve search engine result rankings, may have viewed the sensitive information of 1,400 prospective applicants to Duke University ...
NSW man charged over alleged online school threat 

NSW man charged over alleged online school threat

In Web/client - By Negar Salek, 13 November 2007 5:17 PM
NSW Police have charged a 30-year-old Western Sydney man after allegedly posting a threatening message against a Sydney high school on an internet site last week.
Hacker spam poses as old school friend 

Hacker spam poses as old school friend

In Applications - By Matt Chapman, 8 October 2007 10:17 AM
Hackers are attempting to infect PCs with malware using a 'long-lost female school friend' to lure gullible internet users, a security vendor has warned.
Connecticut teacher convicted on school porn charge a victim of spyware 

Connecticut teacher convicted on school porn charge a victim of spyware

By Dan Kaplan, 28 February 2007 5:01 PM
The scheduled sentencing Friday for a Connecticut substitute teacher convicted of exposing her middle-school students to pop-up internet pornography has been postponed so the ...
US students arrested for fake snow day announcement on high school website 

US students arrested for fake snow day announcement on high school website

In Web/client - By Frank Washkuch, 13 February 2007 6:41 AM
Two students at an Ohio high school were arrested last week and accused of illegally accessing their school district website to announce an unauthorised snow day.
Washington state settles school spam case 

Washington state settles school spam case

By René Millman, 24 May 2006 12:25 PM
Washington state has settled a lawsuit with two Californian spammers accused of bombarding the Seattle School District and other organizations with junk email.
Researchers take VoIP security back to school  

Researchers take VoIP security back to school

By William Eazel, 13 April 2006 2:30 PM
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued four awards totaling $600,000 to the University of North Texas (UNT) to lead a multi-university collaboration to develop a ...
Kids more likely to take online risks at home rather than at school 

Kids more likely to take online risks at home rather than at school

By William Eazel, 7 November 2005 12:30 PM
While home computer use for fun, games and emailing friends is common among children, it also offers kids more opportunity to engage in risky internet activities, recent ...
Canadian University takes IT security back to school  

Canadian University takes IT security back to school

By William Eazel, 31 October 2005 10:27 AM
Ryerson University, a Toronto, Ontario-based university, has completed a wide ranging IT security infrastructure upgrade centering on deployment of over 40 enterprise security ...
Vigilar inks deal to acquire Intense School 

Vigilar inks deal to acquire Intense School

By Marcia Savage, 15 June 2005 10:20 PM
Vigilar, an Atlanta-based information security consulting company, has agreed to acquire IT and security training firm Intense School.
Carnegie Mellon business school notifies 19,000 of breach 

Carnegie Mellon business school notifies 19,000 of breach

By Marcia Savage, 21 April 2005 8:27 PM
Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business has sent out 19,000 notices to students, faculty and graduates about a security breach that may have exposed their ...
Old school virus promises expensive Christmas  

Old school virus promises expensive Christmas

By David Quainton, 15 October 2004 5:19 PM
A novel virus with the capacity to delete entire hard drives has been unleashed. The virus, spread via floppy disk and CD-ROM, performs its destructive action on Christmas day.
Ohio school disciplines 13-year-old hacker 

Ohio school disciplines 13-year-old hacker

By Steve Gold, 12 March 2004 3:23 PM
Proof that hackers are getting younger all the time came earlier this month, when a 13-year-old student in Ohio was suspended for 10 days because of his alleged hacking of the ...
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