Boston College reveals alumni data breach

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This disaster could have easily been avoided.

"College representatives said Thursday that the school was the target of a virus attack on a computer housed in a campus calling center used by students to solicit donations from alumni. According to Boston College spokesman Jack Dunn, the machine in question is managed by a third-party IT service, which the school has chosen not to publicly identify."
Well, Let me guess.... The third party IT service is EDS!.... and the infected system is Microsoft Windows!
EDS, the biggest IT loosers:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1732672,00.asp
M$ Windows, the most insecure & expensive system:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/08/e-banking_trojan_lawsuit/
Boston College should have known better:
The solution is Linux.

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