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Student reporter who discovered university security breach punished but not expelled
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:19:07 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.splc.org/newsflash.asp?id=1621 By Moriah Balingit SPLC staff writer October 5, 2007 OREGON -- When Western Oregon University student journalist Blair Loving opened up a mysteriously placed file on the university's public server last June, he thought he would find information about the College of Education. Instead, he uncovered a file containing the names, Social Security numbers, grade point averages and other sensitive information of former students. Loving's decision to download the file so that the campus newspaper, the Western Oregon Journal, could report on the security breach nearly ended his tenure as a student and led to the dismissal of the paper's adviser, Susan Wickstrom, for allegedly mishandling a copy of the file and for failing to advise the students about the university's computer policies. Loving learned at a disciplinary hearing Sept. 28 that he would not be expelled, but the infraction will remain on his record. Wickstrom was informed in August that her contract would not be renewed. "I worked there for seven years ...and I really feel like I had an excellent relationship with the students," Wickstrom said. "So I was really shocked and stunned to not have my contract renewed." [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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