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Computer Researcher Named Distinguished Fellow of Information Security Group
Eugene H. Spafford has been named as a Distinguished Fellow of the ISSA.
Spafford Comments on Gary McKinnon Case
Professor Eugene Spafford, founder of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Indiana’s Purdue University, said the victim of a cybercrime should not take the blame. If someone broke a door to rob a store, he said, it was usual to charge them the cost of the door.
CERIAS Prof Finds Confidential Information on State-Auctioned Computers
Rogers found the lottery hard drives contain a list of lottery players, along with their home addresses, email addresses and birthdates; personal emails to and from lottery employees including lewd jokes and information about workers’ children; agency databases, contact lists and contracts; serial numbers and other information about lottery scratch-off and pull tab ticket machines placed in retail stores around the state; and employee usernames and passwords used to log on to state computers.
Purdue class treats hard drive as crime scene
Purdue University is schooling law enforcement officers from around the state this week in digital forensics — a sort of crime scene investigation for computers, according to Marc Rogers, a professor of computer and information technology and director of Purdue’s cyber forensics program.
Educators see secure coding training challenges, improvements
Secure coding training courses often take a back seat to other material that competes for inclusion in the curriculum, said Pascal Meunier, a visiting assistant professor at Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) program. Meunier said more security experts need to become teachers and join in the effort in creating and maintaining course material.
CERIAS Ranked Top Information Security Program
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —A private company that measures faculty productivity has ranked Purdue’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Technology the top program in information security among universities in the nation.
What Your Cell Knows About You
“…forensic code breakers (are) working to go beyond the obvious and familiar…”
