How IT execs sell out their organizations
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| Imagine that you've magically become head of IT at a major University:
| you've got 65,000 students and 15,000 faculty expecting reliable
| email services and three real choices about how to provide it...
|
| [...]
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| The Microsoft choice is the default for most organizations, but is
| indefensible on rational grounds; not just because it's the most
| expensive or the least reliable, but mainly because it imposes the
| greatest restrictions on other user and IT decision making. Try to
| imagine, for example, making an Exchange Server decision for campus
| wide email - and then not using Microsoft's identity management
| tools, networking management tools, database tools, or email
| and web clients.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=767
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University server in hackers' hands for a year
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| An unprecedented string of electronic intrusions has prompted Ohio
| University to place at least one technician on paid administrative
| leave and begin a sweeping reorganization of the university's
| computer services department.
|
| Bill Sams, Ohio University's chief information officer, said he
| initiated the reorganization on Friday. The Athens, Ohio-based
| university is reacting to recent discoveries that data thieves
| compromised at least three campus computer servers.
|
| In a disclosure that hasn't been widely reported, one of the
| compromised servers, which held Social Security numbers belonging
| to 137,000 people, was penetrated by U.S. and overseas-based hackers
| for at least a year and possibly much longer, Sams said in a phone
| interview Sunday with CNET News.com.
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http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6074739.html
UT Dallas says more affected by Internet attack
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| The University of Texas at Dallas said Wednesday that further analysis
| of a network breach has revealed that all people employed at the
| university between 1999 and 2005 potentially have had sensitive
| information exposed.
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http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2006/12/11/daily31.html
UCLA Probes Computer Security Breach
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| The University of California, Los Angeles alerted about 800,000
| current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that
| their names and certain personal information were exposed after
| a hacker broke into a campus computer system.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/12/AR2006121200173.html
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