University Blames Security Breach On Un-patched Symantec Bug
 

*Source: Information Week (http://www.informationweek.com/manag...ID=199701978)*
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The University of Colorado at Boulder said sensitive information on 44,998 students was exposed because a worm attacked the network through an un-patched bug in Symantec's anti-virus software.

A server in the university's College of Arts and Sciences' Academic Advising Center held the names and Social Security numbers of students enrolled at CU-Boulder from 2002 to the present, according to an online advisory.

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