PA: Potential data breach reinforces University-wide prevention measures

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://live.psu.edu/story/39025

University-wide, Penn State provides anti-virus software for students, 
faculty members and staff, and uses an advanced intrusion detection system 
to continuously monitor the University.s information technology system. If 
a University computer is thought to have been compromised, the system 
immediately signals Penn State's Information Technology Services group to 
investigate the problem. On March 23, the University confirmed that 10,868 
Social Security numbers in historical data on a computer at Penn State 
Erie, The Behrend College, could have been breached. It cannot be 
confirmed, however, that any of these Social Security numbers actually 
were released to a third party.

These longstanding security measures, designed to protect the network and 
systems from malicious software, alerted the University to the potential 
breach. As soon as the University became aware of the malicious software 
on this computer, the computer was immediately taken off line, data was 
examined and information was removed.

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