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TOP STORIES FOR FRIDAY, MAY 07, 2004
  Results Released from Current Issues Survey
  U.K. Officials End Virtual University
  Phishing Losses Estimated at $1.2 Billion
  Movie Trading Triples in Britain


RESULTS RELEASED FROM CURRENT ISSUES SURVEY
EDUCAUSE has released findings from its annual Current IT Issues
Survey, which includes responses from 571 higher education institutions
of all sizes and types. Of note, funding remains the number one concern
of institutions in terms of its strategic importance to the
institution, its potential to become even more significant in the
future, and its consumption of IT leaders' time. Security and identity
management remains prominent in the survey results, moving from eighth
to third in consumption of resources, likely resulting from growing
numbers of implementations of security projects and from computer
viruses and other attacks with which campuses must cope. In the area of
strategic importance, two issues show up for the first time in this
year's results: business continuity/disaster recovery; and governance,
organization, and IT leadership.
EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 7 May 2004
http://www.educause.edu/pub/eq/eqm04/eqm0422.asp

U.K. OFFICIALS END VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has decided to
discontinue a virtual university set up in 2001 due to low numbers of
students enrolled. U.K. eUniversities Worldwide (UKeU) had hoped to
draw 5,600 students in its first year, but three years later, the
program only has 900 students enrolled. The British government had
allocated $111 million for the program, of which about $63 million has
been spent. Other anticipated sources of funding, including
partnerships with businesses, never materialized at acceptable levels.
According to members of the funding council, the crash of the dot-com
economy at about the same time as the founding of UKeU led to the lack
of interest from most corporations. Others believe that UKeU was flawed
in its design, relying on faculty without adequate experience in online
education, and that developers of the program spent their resources
building an educational platform rather than using tools available on
the market.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 May 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/05/2004050606n.htm

PHISHING LOSSES ESTIMATED AT $1.2 BILLION
According to new research from Gartner, the practice of trying to lure
Internet users into divulging credit card numbers and other information
through e-mail scams cost banks and credit card companies $1.2 billion
last year. So-called "phishing" frauds take advantage of the growing
use of the Internet for business transactions. Phishing involves
sending bogus e-mails, set up to look like they are from online
retailers or other businesses, asking consumers to send credit card
numbers and other information, which is then sent to those behind the
scam. Gartner estimated that 57 million U.S. users received such an
e-mail in the last year. Many analysts expect phishing scams to degrade
consumer confidence in the Internet as a means to transact business. A
separate survey by security firm Cyota indicated that 65 percent of
respondents were less likely to use online banking because of phishing
frauds, and 74 percent said they were less inclined to shop online
because of the scams.
Internet News, 6 May 2004
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3350891

MOVIE TRADING TRIPLES IN BRITAIN
Based on a survey of 16,000 people, the British Video Association (BVA)
estimates that 1.67 million people downloaded copyrighted movies and TV
programs in 2003, compared to 570,000 the year before. Financial losses
to such piracy were set at 45 million pounds, and the BVA's Lavinia
Carey characterized the threat to the industry as "clearly enormous."
The quality of pirated movies and TV programs is widely seen as a
disincentive for many would-be traders of copyrighted video files, as
is the time required to download such files. Increases in broadband
access, however, will make trading video files more attractive to
larger numbers of users. According to Carey, "The film, TV, and video
industries are working closely to preempt the threat from online
piracy." Despite the growing threat of piracy, however, sales of DVDs
have risen sharply, according to the BVA, which said 2003 saw a 61
percent increase.
BBC, 7 May 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3692999.stm

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