CR80News | PSU hit in cyber attack

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Penn State University computers were attacked, possibly by so-called cyber criminals, several days before Christmas, putting Social Security numbers of some 30,000 people at risk.

A spokesperson said the school is trying to determine whose Social Security numbers were exposed and would not say whether they belonged to faculty, staff, alumni or others.

“The Social Security numbers were in archived files that people didn’t realize were on their computers,” the spokesperson said.

PhoneFactor Inc. continues to grow its financial services roster announcing additions to its most recent clientele: Heartland Financial USA, OceanFirst Bank, Northway Bank, and CUANY Credit Union. The PhoneFactor solutions have been utilized by financial institutions as a way to protect customers using e-banking from online fraud. Additionally the PhoneFactor technology can authenticate bank employees for remote logins.

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Smart cards serve as keys to the Internet

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Ceelox completes online authentication prototype

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UTA security breach exposes 30,000 medical files

The University of Texas at Arlington was recently victimized by an outside computer attack, which resulted in unauthorized access to medical files belonging to nearly 30,000 faculty, staff and students, according to a local news report.

PSU hit again, exposing over 15,000 students information

Penn State University has yet again been victimized with another data breach situation resulting in the possible compromise of 15,800 student’s personal information, according to eSecurity Planet.

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PSU hit in cyber attack