Hackers we love them,some hate them..
Dave Dittrich is not happy: A software pirate has hacked into computers at the University of Washington and installed a file-sharing program on one machine. |
It means one-stop shopping for stolen and now free software,and plenty of headaches for Dittrich, the university's computer security expert.
David Brumley, a member of Stanford's computer security team, said hackers break into one of the school's computers each day, on average.
"We might have a slow week, then turn up with 20," he said, adding that many of the compromised computers are used to store copyright material.
Joel de la Garza, a security investigator with Securify in Silicon Valley, said universities cannot lock down their computers in the same way a company could.
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Source: CNN
