The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: College's Computers Were Being Hacked For Over A Decade

January 19, 2012

College's Computers Were Being Hacked For Over A Decade

As thousands of students and employees return today to City College of San Francisco - where criminal hackers, it turns out, have been scanning computer data for years - campus officials are warning everyone to change computer passwords, avoid using school computers for banking or purchases, and to check home computers for viruses. data - including personal banking information from people who had used college computers to bank online - had been stolen over a decade. College officials don't yet know the extent of the problem. Read more at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/16/BA8T1MQ4E5.DTL#ixzz1jp67c6mI

Jan 19, 2012 2:13:00 AM | Information Technology, Security/Crime

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