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 […]
Changes to Wireless and ResNet Network Access for Fall 2019
The Office of Information Systems put out a survey at the end of the Spring 2019 semester concerning wireless and wired network experiences. The feedback was valuable for indicating where students were having issues, where things were working, and a number of other important topics. We’ve taken that feedback and implemented some changes starting for […]
BBLearn Update Day Warning Message
Today, August 8th 2019, Blackboard will be pushing out their latest release of the Blackboard Learn LMS to the servers running our instance of the product (bblearn.atu.edu). Each release contains new features or feature enhancements, as well as maintenance items. The update is expected to be pushed out in the early evening hours. While no […]
Telephone Issues Resolved
The telephone issues affecting Ozark, Public Safety, and portions of the Russellville campus have been resolved. The cause of the Centurylink outage appeared to be a database issue on a server, and it impacted services in multiple markets in the United States. Please contact the Campus Support Center at campussupport@atu.edu with any questions or concerns.
Understanding the Basics of Online Safety and Security
By Christina Bonds Shopping, surfing, banking, gaming, and connecting Internet of Things devices such as toasters and refrigerators are some of the many actions performed each minute in cyberspace. These common everyday activities carry the cyber threats of social engineering to gain unauthorized access to data, identity theft, bullying, location tracking, and phishing, to name […]