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Campus Security: December 14, 2007

Solutions and Strategies for Higher Ed

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:::::: SECURITY SPOTLIGHT

: Things That Go Bump in the Night

:::::: CAMPUS SECURITY NEWS

: Montclair State Requires Students To Carry GPS Phones
: FBI Arrests Penn Student in Global Botnet Crackdown
: Davenport U Offers Military CompSec, BioMetric Courses
: IPFW Reports Rare Breach Following Malware Install
: Duke Law School Reports Social Security Numbers Exposed
: Bethel U Integrates Enterasys NAC with Cisco Infrastructure
: Hedgehog 1.2 Adds Context-Based SQL Injection Security
: SpamTitan Launches Antivirus Suite for Higher Ed

:::::: COMING UP

: Events and happenings in Security

:::::: ONLINE RESOURCES

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:::::: SECURITY SPOTLIGHT ::::::

:: Things That Go Bump in the Night

We've all developed and tested plans (or should have) for natural
disasters--hurricanes in the Southeast, earthquakes in California, floods in our
river valleys, and wildfires in the West, to name a few. Horrific as these events
are, they are local or regional, affecting a few million people at the most. The
rest of the country is still able to step in and provide aid. But what happens in
the unlikely event of a disaster that impacts the entire country? Are we ready?

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: Montclair State Requires Students To Carry GPS Phones

Montclair State University in New Jersey has issued a rule requiring students to own
and carry school-distributed cell phones equipped with location-marking GPS
technology, the school announced. The requirement is designed to add a layer of
security for students, according to the school. A student threatened while walking
on or near campus could activate a beacon on the cell phone. If the signal wasn't
turned off after a predetermined period of time, campus security could use the GPS
signal and Google Maps to locate the student.

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: FBI Arrests Penn Student in Global Botnet Crackdown

The FBI has charged a University of Pennsylvania student and a New Zealand hacker as
part of an international probe into the spread of botnets, large replicating
malicious software networks, the Associated Press reported.

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: Davenport U Offers Military CompSec, BioMetric Courses

In January, Iowa's Davenport University will begin offering military and civilian
employees of the United States Department of Defense online computer security and
biometrics courses, the Grand Rapids Press reported.

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: IPFW Reports Rare Breach Following Malware Install

Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne announced last month that
unspecified personal information from 32 mostly international students might have
been accessed after "an unknown intruder" installed software on a university
computer.

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: Duke Law School Reports Social Security Numbers Exposed

Duke University Law School alerted about 1,400 people whose Social Security numbers
were stored on a school website that it was illegally accessed, the school reported.
School administrators said they were contacting affected people as a precaution but
did not know whether the records were accessed.