Edupage, May 18, 2005
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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2005
Students Show Ease of Identity Theft
IBM and OneCleveland Collaborate on Grid Computing
GAO Warns of Insecure Wi-Fi
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STUDENTS SHOW EASE OF IDENTITY THEFT
Graduate students at Johns Hopkins University set out to see how much
personal information they could collect on as many individuals as
possible, using only the Internet and $50. The 41 students were in a
course taught by Aviel D. Rubin, professor of computer science and
technical director of the university's Information Security Institute,
who divided them into groups of three or four and instructed them to
use only legal, public sources of information. The exercise mimicked
the activities of data brokers, such as ChoicePoint and LexisNexis, and
the students were able to collect and aggregate vast amounts of
information, even with limited time and budgets. Although Rubin was
pleased that fewer Social Security numbers were among the data
collected than he had anticipated, privacy advocates insisted that such
information remains easy to obtain, posing enormous risk of identity
theft. Even without Social Security numbers, the data collected
represented for some individuals a very broad picture of who they are,
where they live, and activities in which they participate. Such access
to personal information worries many, including Sen. Ted Stevens
(R-Alaska), who conducted a similar experiment, instructing his staff
to try to steal his identity. Aside from information they discovered
about Stevens, they were told they could buy his Social Security number
for $65.
New York Times, 18 May 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/technology/18data.html
IBM AND ONECLEVELAND COLLABORATE ON GRID COMPUTING
IBM this week unveiled its Economic Development Grid, an effort to
bring grid computing out of research labs and into government,
education, health care, and other areas. OneCleveland, a nonprofit
organization working to bring high-speed Internet to the city of
Cleveland, is the first to use the Economic Development Grid.
OneCleveland has been working on the project with IBM for two years,
according to Scot Rourke, president of the organization. The
implementation includes several separate projects: the Higher Education
Collaborative Grid, designed to give new access to higher education and
increase enrollments at Ohio universities; the K-12 Outreach Grid,
which gives K-12 teachers access to resources at other schools and
universities; and the Healthcare Collaborative Grid, a system of
sharing information among hospitals to improve health care. Organizers
hope that the technology will attract business and other economic
interests to the region.
Internet News, 18 May 2005
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3505951
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GAO WARNS OF INSECURE WI-FI
A report released this week by the Government Accountability Office
(GAO) strongly criticizes the Wi-Fi security of federal agencies.
Wireless networks with no security or with poorly configured security
pose significant risks of unauthorized access. Hackers within range of
the network could access the network and potentially other computers on
the network. Despite guidelines issued by the National Institute for
Standards and Technology stating that government agencies should forgo
wireless networks unless their security can be ensured, 13 of 24 major
agencies do not require security for wireless networks, and 9 agencies
do not have wireless-security plans. Investigators from the GAO
monitored six agencies and detected Wi-Fi signals outside all of them.
The GAO report recommends that the Office of Management and Budget
require all federal agencies to use a variety of security measures,
including encryption and virtual private networks.
Reuters, 17 May 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8521359
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