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Article: COMPUTER FORENSICS PROGRAM BUILDS RANKS OF CYBER INVESTIGATORS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 18, 2009
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TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 17 -- University of Washington-Tacoma issued the following news release:
Albert Gonzalez, the man accused of pulling off the largest American data heist to date, acquired a portion of his breathtakingly colossal bounty-more than 130 million credit card numbers-while cruising the sunny streets of Miami, hacking into the wireless networks of supermarket and clothing retailers.
Hackers less sophisticated than Gonzalez operate everywhere, wreaking damage on a smaller, albeit no less serious, scale.
Digital forensics expert Brett Shavers fights hackers on the front lines of cyber crime in the Seattle-Tacoma region. Shavers will teach a winter-term course on Computer ...