Due to the recent cyber security warnings that have been circulating in the news, the Office of Information Systems is issuing this announcement to encourage users to reboot their computers as soon as reasonably possible. We are seeing computers that have updates pending an install. We need you to restart your computer to allow these […]
Get Smart! Mitigating Risks in Connected Devices
by Kim Milford December 17, 2018 Smart/IoT devices may be the panacea for consumer convenience. Do you want to know and change the temperature of your house or even your fridge remotely? There’s an app for that. Such devices also raise extreme privacy concerns about the data collected about you. Devices can track or discern […]
The IT Team Can’t Do It Alone—Cybersecurity Is Everyone’s Responsibility
By Chad Tracy Did you know? In 2017 the education industry (which includes K–12 and higher education institutions) had 7,837,781 records breached in 35 events. To put that into perspective, the healthcare industry had 6,058,989 records breached in 428 events, and the retail industry had 123,652,526 records beached across 33 events. (See Privacy Rights Clearinghouse […]
Information Security To Go!
by Ben Woelk and Joanna Grama Many people love the adventure that traveling provides: meeting new people, seeing new places, and having new experiences are part of the allure. Technology makes it easier than ever to satisfy our wanderlust. We can use our connected devices to discover the exotic locales we wish to visit, book […]
Data Breach Reported From Chegg
The email monitoring service Have I Been Pwned has reported that Chegg, an education technology company that provides student services like homework help, online tutoring, test preparation, scholarship searches, internship matching, and college application advice, had a data breach in April 2018. User names and passwords were part of the data released. There were 751 […]