Viruses Stole City College of S.F. Data For Years

An anonymous reader sends this quote from an article at the San Francisco Chronicle: "Personal banking information and other data from perhaps tens of thousands of students, faculty and administrators at City College of San Francisco have been stolen in what is being called 'an infestation' of computer viruses with origins in criminal networks in Russia, China and other countries, The Chronicle has learned. At work for more than a decade, the viruses were detected a few days after Thanksgiving, when the college's data security monitoring service detected an unusual pattern of computer traffic, flagging trouble."

Not surprising

[Niris]

From what I've seen community college IT Tends to be pretty horrible. One of them out here had a server password of "password" and remoting on. Others tend to use a generic password on everything such as Mascot1 or gomascot1

Re:Human failure

[Anonymous Coward]

write only thumbdrive

That sounds pretty useless

Re:Human failure

[Khyber]

No! It's a GREAT layer of security! You can't load into memory what you can't read!

Re:Missing details

[Corbets]

Damn good point. I've never caught a virus from a porn site in 20+ years.

In fact, they've only fired the anti-virus on REGULAR sites that had drive-by malware ad-banners hosted by GOOGLE of all places!

In fact, porn has probably helped me not catch many a virus from the local gentleman's establishment...