More community colleges are offering four-year degrees, including in San Diego NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

While it seems cyberattacks and data breaches are becoming for common, there’s some help on the way to stop criminals in their tracks. San Diego City College is one of the first community colleges in our region offering a four-year degree in cybersecurity.

“There’s threats all over,” said Theresa Savarese, chair of City College’s information technology department. “It’s really kind of a scary world in many ways.”

Terrell McClain, a college lab technician, says technology’s modernization made it easier to target systems.

“Before, if a person was trying to see some kind of information, they would have to get inside a building, get to where the information was located and then take it,” McClain said. “Now, people are sitting behind desks and able to do it from home.”

One student says she was once a hacking victim herself when someone got into her email account.

“I noticed history that was not mine,” Julia Aarons-Stridh, …