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The University of Miami disclosed on Friday that one of its storage vendors lost a number of back-up tapes containing the personal information of more than two million patients. The University of California system has agreed to pay the US Department of Energy (DOE) a US$2.8 million fine as a result of a security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory last year. The website of Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) apparently was hacked on Monday, with some of its database files made available on a peer-to-peer file sharing network by someone who said they wanted to "demonstrate" the lack of security on the university's server. Silent but deadly attacks on four major sites have been revealed by researchers Ed Felten and Bill Zeller at Princeton University. Hackers, possibly trying to embed links to improve search engine result rankings, may have viewed the sensitive information of 1,400 prospective applicants to Duke University on the institution's law school website, school officials said today. A newly released Open Source security program claims to have the potential to put antivirus software companies out of business. Personal data at another college has been exposed, allowing potential hackers to gain access to student information. The Victorian Government together with Westpac Bank, IBM Australia and the University of Ballarat have launched the Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL) a research alliance to tackle cyber-crime. Researchers from University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego (UCSD) have published a report detailing how they hacked a spamming network to collect data on the economics of the problem. The University of Missouri is the latest university to fall victim to cybercrime, after hackers breached a database and lifted more than 20,000 Social Security numbers (SSNs). A disabled firewall and an unapplied patch allowed hackers to infiltrate a server at the University of Colorado, Boulder, exposing the personal information of nearly 45,000 students, the university said Tuesday. An American who helped a New Zealand hacker has been sentenced to 90 days in prison and five years of probation. Texax University officials have asked nearly 100,000 network users to change passwords after hackers attempted to access university accounts. A significant proportion of hard disks analysed in an ongoing study contained sensitive data about businesses and individuals. A number of recent studies have highlighted the security concerns over e-voting machines. The UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Spam Data Mine is showing that the war in Georgia is being used to evade spam filters. Cambridge University security researcher Dr Richard Clayton argues that BT should be prosecuted because it monitored internet users' websurfing habits without their permission, while the telco declines to say its activities were legal. Pirated microchips based on stolen blueprints could soon be a thing of the past thanks to computer engineers at Rice University and the University of Michigan. McAfee has announced its 'Initiative to Fight Cybercrime' which is calling for action to deliver more effective investigations and prosecutions of cybercrime. Researchers at an Eastern European security company have uncovered a spam-sending scheme of "Byzantine complexity" that attempts to use military and university email servers to send junk email.