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To kick off our Cyber Security Awareness Month campaign, this edition is all about IT security.
Data Breaches
- In 2015 Symantec reported a whopping due to data breaches.
- At the , a hard drive containing personal information of approximately 900 students disappeared this month.
- in 2016 (so far), including two universities, LinkedIn, Drop Box, and 鈥榤ultiple major email providers鈥�, including the most recent .
- Protect yourself from data breaches by .
Passwords
- Nearly use duplicate passwords, many of which have not been changed in five years or more.
- 123456, linkedin, and password were the three identified in the LinkedIn breach.
- To avoid duplicating your passwords, use one of these .
- Keep your password safe and secure with these .
- have been hit by ransomware. Two thirds were hit multiple times. Here鈥檚 what we can do to help of these attacks.
- According to , 93% of phishing emails are now ransomware.
- At 杏吧原创 we block over 85% of all inbound email as spam or viruses.
- How to recognize a .
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month
Next month we will be participating in Cyber Security Awareness Month.聽 聽Our month long campaign is designed to help you better understand the cyber threats you face online and the simple steps you can take to minimize those risks.
Simple things like:
- Knowing how to spot suspicious emails
- Creating secure passwords
- Keeping your computers and mobile devices safe
- Recognizing which websites can be risky
5 Things We Thought You Should Know
- As to be expected, each September we see a spike in聽stats. 聽Service Desk calls are up, wireless traffic is up, and .
- Tapping into the resources offered by the Research Computing Services team, researchers in Systems and Computer Engineering were .
- Use an iPhone? Avoid data charges by .
- In addition to the software available on the newly upgraded student lab computers or via 杏吧原创鈥檚 Virtual Computer Lab, student can obtain a number of to install on their computers.
- Thrive Week, a week long series of events focused on building positive mental health for 杏吧原创 students, faculty and staff, kicks off October 3.