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The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

School websites safe from Heartbleed bug

Jake Saferstein April 10, 2014

Internet security experts have found a major security bug, Heartbleed, that allowed people to access users’ connection to secure websites and obtain their secure information. The bug now has a patch,...

Computer network shutdown was malicious, school finds

May 6, 2011

By Saj Sri-Kumar The attack that brought down the school’s computer system on Tuesday, April 26 was malicious, Computer Services has found. A denial-of-service attack was performed at...

Computer services extends WiFi network connection

February 17, 2011

The Harvard-Westlake wireless network has been extended to cover the entire upper school campus. The change was implemented Feb. 7. To access the WiFi network on a personal computer, one selects the...

Change in e-mail system to protect student privacy

September 1, 2010

By Maddy Baxter In order to protect the privacy of students and update the school’s software, a new e-mail system has been implemented, Director of Computer Services Dave Ruben said. All student...

Computer services revamps school website

September 8, 2009

By Claire Hong Members of computer services have been working on remodeling the Harvard-Westlake website for nearly a year. However, the changes were not made until this summer so that the whole website...

Student discovers how to hack school server

October 1, 2008

A sophomore boy served an in-house suspension early last month after he posted instruction on how to crack the school’s server onto what the school called a "hacking website" over the summer, he...

Stop web blocks

May 30, 2007

In the last two years, Computer Services has increased the number of web pages that are blocked to students. This action shows a lack of faith in students and their maturity.If we can be trusted to police...

Student e-mail returns

Chronicle Staff September 4, 2006

 By Annie Belfield and Max Rifkind-BarronStarting today, school-wide e-mail service will once again be availible to students. A school based e-mail service will replace last years’ www.gaggle.net...

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