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11/1/2023 Watch out for Phishing Texts!
We've received reports of phishing texts that are spoofing important university personnel
such as president Licari. 如果你 receive an unexpected text 从 a superior take a
moment to think if it makes sense for this person to be reaching out to you. 不
respond to these messages but if you think it might be legitimate, reach out to the
person through a different known good means of communication such as their work email
or university phone to verify it really is them.
2/24/2023 Stay Alert to Malicious Voice Mail Emails!
The university has seen a rash of malicious emails with fake voice mail attachments
that will infect your computer and compromise your account. 学校的电话
system is Avaya - and legitimate voice mail emails 从 Avaya will come 从 "Avaya
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2/22/2023 IT 安全 is setting a new password policy.
Constructing strong 密码 is important. Passwords stand between you and someone else accessing your account! To help strengthen the university's enterprise 密码, the IT 安全 team will be making the following changes on May 15th 2023. 看 for email communication 从 apitsecurity@p8157.com explaining this change and giving you ideas on how to construct (and remember) strong 密码. The change to the policy will be:
- Passwords will be required to be a minimum of 12 characters.
- Employee 密码 will now expire every 356 days instead of 120 days.
Increasing the minimum amount of characters a password has will make it harder for attackers to brute force attack your password. 根据 darkreading.com an 8 character password can be cracked by a brute force attack in less than an hour, while a 12 character password can take up to 3000 years to crack!
2/22/2023 What's the quarantine folder in my mailbox?
The quarantine folder located inside of your Outlook holds emails that have been identified by the security tool that analyzes emails reported with the PhishAlert button and are found with the security tool to be malicious These emails stay in your quarantine folder for 15 days before being automatically deleted (although you can safely delete these emails beforehand). Best practice is to ignore these emails all together. 使 sure not to fall victim to any of the emails that are in your quarantine folder and continue to report suspicious emails with the PhishAlert button!
12/1/2022 Stay alert for “Spoofed” emails!
Have you ever received an email 从 someone on campus and noticed that they it was tagged with the [External] flag? Have you ever received an email 从 yourself that 你没有发送? If so you probably have been the recipient of an email spoofing attack.
Recently IT 安全 has noted an increase in spoofing emails being sent to 365bet faculty. It’s important to keep in mind that emails can be “spoofed”. 这是黑客的一种方式 can make an email look like it’s coming 从 someone you know. 如果有些东西看起来 off about an email you have received, double check who the email was actually sent 从. With email, there are two places to look to determine who the mail is 从. The first place is the “friendly name”; this will typically just look like the person’s name and is relatively easy to fake. Instead of looking there, you should turn your attention to the actual email address that the mail was received 从. 对于外部 email this can be found to the right of the person’s name bracketed with less than 比神迹更大. John Doe <约翰.doe@example.com>. For internal emails you will need to click on the name in order to see what address the email originated 从. Pay special attention to any email that has an [External] flag on it, these emails are tagged to have come 从 outside of Austin Peay. 如果你 have any questions about a particular email, please forward it to apitsecurity@p8157.com so we can assist in identifying whether an email is safe.
11/1/2021 IT 安全 Intern Jonathan Lensert Updates the IT 安全 Web pages!
Kudos to Jonathan in designing and developing the IT 安全 web pages as part of his Senior class Internship. The IT 安全 team appreciates finally having a meaningful resource for university students, faculty, staff, and community!