Created by: Travis Francis
November 30, 2010
 Purdue University thought they had a
minor glitch in their campus network,
only to find out the system had been
hacked.
 Purdue acting proactively did the
following:
 Sent emails to all 60,000 students, faculty
members and employees on the main
campus asking them to change their
network passwords.
 Within 24 hours about 15,000 people had
changed their passwords.
 By day four, more than fifty percent of the
professors and 38 percent of the students
had changed their passwords.
 The remaining of the students and
professors, chose not to change their
passwords.
 Be Smart with Passwords.
 Having multiple passwords.
 Never leave passwords laying around.
 Equip every campus machine with
hardware called a one-time-passwordtoken device.
 Find intent of reason for hackers,
hacking into the system.
 California State University at Hayward
network was attacked by a hacker,
compromising personal information for
over 2,000 people.
 Hayward officials sent apology letters
within 5 days.
 California Law passed in 2003.
 Requires that within 10 days of an attack, public
universities must notify anyone whose personal
information may have been exposed.
 California Polytechnic State University and
Berkeley also had their systems hacked.
 Large universities can afford to implement
the more expensive measures to prevent
hackers from being successful.
 Have you been hacked Never?
 303 People
 Have you been hacked Once?
 102 People
 Have you been hacked Twice?
 22 People
 Have you been hacked Several Times? (2-50 Times)
 22 People
 Have you been hacked Lots? (Greater then 50 Times)
 10 People
Total: 404 People
How Many Times You Have Been Hacked?
350
300
Number of People
250
200
150
100
50
0
Never
Once
Twice
Serveal Times
Occurence of Being Hacked
Lots
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Explosives
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