The coming of August not only marks the start of another academic year, it’s also the first time that fledgling college students will be away from home. But while leaving the nest is an exciting prospect, there are very real concerns for young people as they brave new waters. Unsurprisingly, cyber safety tops the list, […]

More than 1,800 University of California, Irvine students, along with two dozen non-students, have been notified that they their personal information was not only left unencrypted, but may also have been compromised after keylogger malware was discovered on three student health center computers. According to a report form the SCMagazine, the keylogger malware was on […]

With the number of data breaches and cases of identity theft on college campuses on the rise, the need to build more robust IT security is paramount. At Arkansas State University, the threat of identity theft is just as real as it is anywhere else, prompting IT staff to meet the challenge head on. Arkansas […]

There seems to be a new data breach reported every week, and a growing number of them are taking place on the college campus. This week is no different with separate reports of compromised student data coming from Michigan’s Grand Valley State University and Johns Hopkins in Maryland. At Grand Valley State, officials suggest that […]

It seems that data breaches occur all to often, and while some attacks are unavoidable, others are simply unacceptable. Just as Canada’s Human Resources and Skills Development office. The Canadian Press reported that a portable hard drive containing the personal information of more than 500,000 people who took out student loans was left unsecured as […]

A theft at the University of California at San Francisco may compromise the personal data of some 10,000 people associated with the institution. The university has sent letters to those it believes have been affected after one of its campuses fell victim to computer theft. UCSF reported that unencrypted desktop computers were stolen on January […]

In an attack on the Johns Hopkins University servers, a hacker was able to obtain the names, emails and phone numbers of some 850 current and past biomedical engineering students. In a bizarre twist to the story, the Baltimore Sun reports that the hacker then attempted to parlay the personal data they had acquired by […]

The University of Maryland has been the subject of a massive data breach, leaving the personal accounts of students, faculty and staff vulnerable. University officials anticipate that the data breach includes information on anyone who was issued a campus ID for university’s College Park and Shady Grove campuses since 1998 – an estimated 309,079 students, […]

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) is investigating a recently discovered data breach, which could potentially affect more than 6,000 people. On November 11, an information technology manager in the Division of Finance and Administration at the University discovered some of the Division’s files had inadvertently become accessible on the Internet. These […]

Authentify is rolling out a solution that would verify the identity of remote students using voice biometrics. U.S. education institutions are expanding their remote learning programs nationwide but grappling with federal mandates to prove online students are actually taking courses and tests. The product provides an end-to-end voice biometrics and mobile phone-based identity verification service […]