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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025 Week 4

We have one final topic this last week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. We’re talking about spotting phishing emails and scams and how to report them. After I explain the process to report phishing emails and where to report other types of scams, Gabby, my student worker has a “Halloween-ized” section on how to spot those “scary” phishing emails and also explains spear phishing.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025 Week 3

Welcome to week three of Cybersecurity Awareness Month! As of the time this was written, only somewhere between a third and a quarter of faculty and staff had completed the required cybersecurity awareness training for fall 2025. The October 31st deadline will be here before you know it and reminder emails are going out already. Students, remember that I am bribing you with the possibility of winning a cool prize for finishing the training. You also only have until October 31st to complete the Cybersecurity Awareness Month scavenger hunt. Right now, those who have completed it have great odds for winning one of the prizes in the drawings. Get out there and hunt down those clues! But for a few more minutes, continue reading about our two topics for this week – keeping your software up to date and important guidelines on using your Berry email account for personal business.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025 Week 2

Welcome to week two of Cybersecurity Awareness Month! If you haven’t started your cybersecurity awareness training, I encourage you to do so soon. The deadline is October 31st. If you haven’t started the scavenger hunt, then what are you waiting for? There have already been several completions and I know that your knowledge and perspective will both be enhanced by digging for the answers to the questions in the hunt. AND…you can win a prize! Complete all five levels and fill out the form at the end of the hunt and you will have six chances to win something cool.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Week 4 – Recognize and Report Phishing

No Cybersecurity Awareness Month would be complete without a discussion of phishing emails. Everyone needs to know how to spot these attacks and what to do with them once you suspect an email of being “phishy”. The task of spotting…

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024 Week 3 – Update Your Software

Welcome to week three of Cybersecurity Awareness Month for 2024. I hope everyone is progressing through the Virtual Scavenger Hunt. If you are not, then click the “Start Hunting!” button on the banner at the top right of this website…

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024 Week 2 – MFA

We’ve talked about multifactor authentication a lot on this website. It gets mentioned every month in the newsletter wrap-up. We’ve discussed many different ways that multifactor or 2nd factor authentication can work. Last year for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we turned…

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October News from Information Security

It’s time to put October into overdrive! We’ve already experienced Mountain Day. I hope it was fun and safe for everyone. We have Fall Break coming, but today, we start the celebration of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. What does that entail? Almost four full weeks (not counting November 1st) of opportunities to raise the level of cybersecurity awareness of the community.

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