Week 2 of Cybersecurity Awareness Month focuses on steps users and organizations can take to protect internet-connected devices for both personal and professional use. Secure your home office Physical security shouldn’t go out the window when you’re working from home. Just as you lock the up the office when you leave for the day, do Read More…
If You Connect It, Protect It!
It sounds so simple, but taking an active and conscious role in protecting your internet-connected devices is greatly important to staying cyber secure. Installing updates as soon as they become available, employing multi-factor authentication, deleting suspicious emails and attachments—following these simple every-day steps can vastly improve cybersecurity. This is especially true now that nearly everything Read More…
Welcome to a Different Academic Year!
2020 has proven to be a very challenging year all around. Those of us fortunate to be able to work remotely had to adapt to a new routine and a myriad of technical and organizational challenges. IT groups had to quickly scramble to enable employees to perform their daily tasks remotely. New technologies needed to Read More…
How to protect yourself from getting sick in an open office environment
By Erin McDowell – Business Insider
Data loss happens. Are you prepared?
Haven’t you lost a file, a folder, a USB drive, or the entire contents of your computer’s hard drive? I have – all of the above! Data loss happens at the most inopportune time, and when you least expect it. It is one of the worst feelings. You’ve lost all of your documents, your tax Read More…
Malware Threats on Macs Outpace Windows for 1st. Time Ever
(Reblog from Gizmodo) It’s generally accepted that Macs are safer and less malware-prone than Windows PCs. Well, not anymore. A new report says that for the first time ever, Mac-specific threats outpaced PCs by a rate of 2:1 in 2019. Mac (native) security was always a myth… People thought that, because most viruses didn’t affect Apple devices, they were Read More…
Did you know that today (Jan. 28) is Data Privacy Day?
January 28 is Data Privacy Day (DPD), an annual effort to promote data privacy awareness and education. This year’s DPD events, sponsored by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), focus around the theme, A New Era in Privacy. The NCSA Stay Safe Online website will feature a live stream of the Data Privacy Day 2019 – Live From Read More…
Windows 7 is dead – Long live Windows 7
As of January 14, 2020 Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows 7 No more software updates No more security fixes or patches No more technical support It is DEAD!!! So what can you do if you, your research lab, or your students are still using a computer running on Windows 7? The best answer I Read More…
‘Tis the season to be merry, to be wary, so you don’t end up being sorry.
Aaah! The holiday season is upon us, and so are numerous emails and ads enticing us to shop, shop, shop. Along with clever advertising come clever cyber criminals with their clever ways, and their clever emails. Their only intent: to leave you with a lump of coal in your stockings, and a myriad of financial Read More…
PROTECT IT. – Protecting Your Digital Home
More and more of our home devices— including thermostats, door locks, coffee machines, and smoke alarms—are now connected to the Internet. This enables us to control our devices on our smartphones, no matter our location, which in turn can save us time and money while providing convenience and even safety. These advances in technology are Read More…