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Slow economy spurs quick degrees
Louis Drzewiecki, a senior data analyst at United Healthcare Corp. in Minneapolis, decided three years ago to pursue a master's degree. But there was a problem. He still needed to complete his bachelor's degree, and of the 100 units he had earned 12 years earlier, his local state college would only accept 30. So he took advantage of a regionally accredited program at Charter Oak State College in New Britain, Connecticut, where most of those credits transferred.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | March 13, 2002

Firms increasingly call on cyberforensics teams
Businesses with intellectual property and online customers to protect are increasingly calling on cyberforensics investigators to get to the bottom of cases of employee wrongdoing and electronic crimes.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | January 16, 2002

Cybersecurity czar: Protect IT infrastructure
United States cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke says that cyberattacks on the nation's critical IT (information technology) infrastructure could potentially cause "catastrophic damage to the economy" and urged more spending on IT infrastructure and security.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | November 9, 2001

IT workers get the call
A high-tech information exchange had just gotten under way at the Capital Hilton Hotel when the World Trade Center was attacked September 11. Then the Pentagon was hit minutes later, prompting an evacuation of the 28 senators and speakers cloistered in a conference room at the hotel.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | October 8, 2001

'Nimda' appears quiet after 10-day 'sleep'
In a bulletin issued at 3:16 p.m. Friday, Symantec's "security response" program indicated that little meaningful trouble was being made by the "Nimda" worm as it ended its 10-day dormant stage.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | September 28, 2001

Internet worm disguised as security alert
A bogus Microsoft security alert is apparently being used by crafty hackers to spread the latest version of a computer worm on the Internet.

CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | July 17, 2001

Ties tighten between hackers and the law?
Hackers, computer security managers and law enforcement officials teamed up at last week's Black Hat Briefings conference to discuss their respective roles in securing the Internet and to urge attendees who engage in hacking activities to stay on the right side of the law.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | July 16, 2001

University computers remain hacker havens
A little over a year ago, on February 7, 2000, the first wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks hit Internet portal Yahoo Inc.

CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | February 14, 2001

Could a cyberwar cripple the US?
It's April Fool's Day, 2002. Glitches in air traffic controller screens nearly cause a collision above New York's LaGuardia Airport. Two weeks later, California Independent System Operator Corp., which controls California's power grid, somehow misplaces an electrical energy order to Southern California Edison, leaving two-thirds of San Diego in the dark.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | January 24, 2001

Inside the world of a 'hactivist'
Yetzer-Ra, a 6-foot-3-inch, 300-pound giant of a man, paces between his "subjects" in the smoke-filled Goth club Click + Drag, located in the old meat-packing district of Manhattan.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | October 18, 2000

Can you hack back?
In December, when protesters were rampaging through Seattle in an attempt to disrupt the World Trade Organization summit meeting, other activists were launching a denial of service (DOS) attack on the WTO Web site.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | June 1, 2000

A case of cyberstalking
Shortly after she fired a freelance photographer for downloading pornography, a vice president at the Lexington Herald Leader newspaper started getting strange phone calls from men who said they had met her in chat rooms and wanted to meet her in person.

CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | May 31, 2000

Cracking cybercrime
Don't touch electronic evidence until you call in the cops or a cyberforensics expert
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | October 29, 1998

The hacker in all of us
"How do you spell pillage?" asks Fred Norwood, manager of information infrastructure technology at El Paso Energy Corp. in Houston.

CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | October 12, 1999

Is there a homegrown solution to the IT-labor shortage?
The U.S. opens its doors to let in an extra 50,000 foreign information technology workers -- while the domestic labor pool stays underdeveloped. What's wrong with that picture?
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | June 17, 1999

Companies struggle with privacy on the Web
The issue of privacy both polarizes and unifies government, cyberactivists, businesses and consumers. "Privacy is something that Americans respond to very emotionally," says industry analyst Jim Balderson at Zona Research Inc. in Redwood City, Calif.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | May 20, 1999

E-mail doesn't have to be opened to release virus
"Suppose it's possible to send an e-mail containing a hidden construct," said an information security director. "And when the user opens that e-mail, the construct will run without the user ever knowing anything."
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | May 13, 1999

Policing pollution
As wind and rain pummel the water, a valve opens, sending oil through a line that is normally attached to a tanker. But there is no tanker present, so the oil belches into the water.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | April 20, 1999

Are dirt-cheap consumer PCs good for IT shops?
When Jason Foster took over systems development at ASD Catalogs last year, he inherited a mishmash of more than 200 clone PCs. Since then, he has hassled with inconsistent componentry, poor serviceability and frequent system crashes, all of which take a serious toll on productivity.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | February 12, 1999

Who are the champions of women in technology?
When Shelley Hayes, fresh computer science degree in hand, landed her first IT job, she wound up answering phones. That's where the company's owner thought women belonged.

CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | January 20, 1999

Handling crime in the 21st century
It's a gray day in Portland, Ore., where 10 of us are up to our elbows in the arcane terms of data recovery: file allocation tables, rogue clusters and slack space, or traces of evidence left by a deleted file. Terms such as "evidentiary copy" and "smoking gun" float through the room.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | December 15, 1998

Cybercop boot camp takes a byte out of computer crime
El Nino gave California a break overnight, pushing the mercury to a suffocating 99 degrees Fahrenheit and rousting a storm of fat, window-splattering insects along Route 50 to Sacramento. Here, at the headquarters of SEARCH Group, 17 shorts-clad officers of the law had traded their guns for PCs for two weeks in June. Some came a long way to do it: from Canada, Idaho — even two from the Chinese Ministry of Justice.

CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | September 9, 1998

Hacking away at kiddie porn
In February, the information systems department at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, Calif., learned that child pornography was being stored on a server somewhere on campus.
CNN.com - Technology | Feature Article | August 18, 1998