There are fears students in California may have been the
victims of identity thefts after
hackers accessed personal data.
More than 1100 new students at the University of California
Davis School of Veterinary Medicine found data in their accounts
such as names, birth dates and social security numbers had been
accessed last month.
There are also reports that data from 375 students from the
2004-2005 class may have been
hacked into.
The university had anti-virus, anti-trojan and other
applications in place, but did not have behavioural analysis
software.
Geoff Sweeney, CTO of IT security firm Tier-3, said this might
have spotted unusual activity such as students accessing their
accounts before they had started at the university.
He added that the different types of threats facing modern IT
managers are now so varied that a
safety net approach - using behavioural analysis software - is
now required to secure an IT system from the various attacks by
today's hackers.
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