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Fraud, usually involving money, such as an attempt to convince the victim to purchase gift cards
Welcome to March and all that March means to our progress through the semester. This newsletter publishing during Spring Break is no accident. It is aimed squarely at faculty and staff. I want to take the opportunity to reiterate some cybersecurity awareness points I have been trying to make over the past few months. We’re not talking about good passwords or password managers or phishing (well, maybe a little about phishing). While all of those topics are important, I want to focus two other very important topics: improper uses of your Berry College email account and the safe use of your Berry purchasing cards, or P-cards. Recent activity exposed by our cybersecurity systems show alarming practices that need to stop as soon as possible.
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.
Welcome to a brand new year here at Berry College! I know everyone has a lot on their plates right now, so this newsletter will be to the point, but I have a lot of things to share with you. Speaking of things to share, this newsletter is a monthly production of the Office of Information Security, which is part of the Office of Information Technology (OIT)
Happy July! I hope everyone had a fantastic and safe 4th of July weekend. As you may have noticed—I’m not Dan! My name is Locke Motley, and I’m excited to be part of the Information Security office this summer as…
April is here and the semester is winding down. I hope everyone’s semester is going well and you are able to both get all your work done and enjoy the spring weather. I have two topics this month that are not new, but, as all things cybersecurity related, have changed, intensified or obviously need clarification. Those topics are phishing emails and keeping your personal activities separate from your work activities. I want to take a little different approach to these two topics, so hang with me and take the next few minutes to finish reading this newsletter.
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…
March News from Information Security
If you’re like me, February went by quickly. Welcome to March! We’re advancing through the semester at a rapid pace and graduation will be here before we all know it. Before that happens, there are a couple of other milestones we will achieve. One of those is Spring Break, happening next week, and the other one I’d like to discuss is April 18th, or Tax Day (at least for 2023). One or both of these dates affect almost anyone reading this newsletter, so allow me a few minutes to remind you of some things to remember.