Tag: Security

  • Nation & World

    Adding security at Harvard

    Harvard encourages computer users to watch out for and report phishing expeditions, which are increasing.

    6 minutes
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    Countering the cyberintruders

    Harvard officials recommend steps to keep computer networks safe from cyberattacks.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard IT gets a reboot

    Harvard is rolling out state-of-the-art computer upgrades for student record-keeping, faculty teaching, and community security.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Voice of the brutalized

    Harvard Humanitarian Initiative researchers polled residents of a war-torn part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, finding that though many think the security situation has improved, trust in government is at a low ebb.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Security in Sochi

    With public attention focused on the potential for unrest around Sochi to disrupt the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia, the Gazette spoke with Timothy Colton, Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, about the region, security preparations, and the roots of unrest.

    9 minutes
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    The promise of ‘big data’

    Harvard symposium embraces the goals and challenges of collecting and processing massive amounts of information on key complex issues.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Weather warning

    A report co-authored by Professor Michael McElroy and D. James Baker, a former administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, connects global climate change, extreme weather, and national security.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    NaCl to give way to RockSalt

    A team led by Harvard computer scientists, including two undergraduate students, has developed a new tool that could lead to increased security and enhanced performance for commonly used Web and mobile applications.

    5 minutes
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    A call to reverse security measures

    Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein visited Harvard Law School for a talk sponsored by the HLS Forum and the Harvard Law Record. At the event, both men discussed what they called lawless and violent practices by the White House and its agencies that have become institutionalized by both political parties.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New ID card distribution through February

    Continuing through the early winter of 2009, Harvard is distributing new, high-technology ID cards to the University community. The Harvard ID card is used in more than 400 systems across campus, and the new card will make those systems more secure by segregating key information and encrypting it in card-based technologies that are unique to…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Rolf Mowatt-Larssen named senior fellow at Belfer Center

    Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, director of the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy and former head of the Central Intelligence Agency’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) and terrorism efforts, will join the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as a senior fellow on Jan. 19.

    4 minutes
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    Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences hacking incident

    A Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Web server that contained summaries of GSAS applicant data for entry to the Fall 2007 academic year, summaries of GSAS housing applicant data for the 2007-08 and 2006-07 academic years, and administrator information was hacked by an outsider and compromised in a way that the data…

    2 minutes