A student in a Saratoga County New Yorkk) school alerted his principal to a computer security vulnerability that could expose the names, social security numbers and addresses of school employees.
Suddenly, there were millions of machines, operated by people with little understanding of computer security, with shared vulnerabilities and fast connections to the network.
Computer security experts have identified vulnerabilities in the voter registration databases in two states, raising concerns about the ability of hackers and others to disenfranchise voters.
We tried this in computer security with regard to vulnerabilities, announcing general information but not publishing specifics.
Dear school administrators, What's the best way to ensure that your computer network remains riddled with security vulnerabilities that leave you, your personnel and [someone think of the] schoolchildren in danger?
Offices in Chicago and Oakland, Calif., are short of experts in computer security, increasing the agency's vulnerability to intrusion and espionage, the audit said.
Another computer security professional who reviewed the vulnerability — without attempting to probe it for fear of prosecution — is Kris Constable of PrivaSecTech in Vancouver, Canada.
Peter G. Neumann, a computer security expert who has studied the vulnerabilities of voting for 20 years, says moving to electronic or even Internet voting could be perilous.
SAN FRANCISCO — Computer security researchers are raising alarms about vulnerabilities in some of the Web's most secure corners: the banking, e-commerce and other sites that use encryption to communicate with their users.
