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The Office of Cybersecurity manages the university’s risk-reduction efforts through data protection, ongoing diagnostics, cybersecurity awareness training and policies and procedures to safeguard intellectual property and sensitive information.

11/9 spam & tech support scam alert: Adult themed email from .ru domains

Posted on November 9, 2022

The Cybersecurity Operations Center and Information Technology’s Office 365 email team have been tracking an increase in spam email messages promoting adult websites. Some of these messages include links to tech support scam webpages.

Posted in IT News, Scams

Stay cyber safe—and go on a (virtual) scavenger hunt!

Posted on October 14, 2022

What should you do if you get an MFA-Duo push notification that you didn’t request? How can you find out if your email or phone number was compromised in a data breach? And what the heck is “vishing?” Go on our scavenger hunt for Cybersecurity Awareness Month and find out!

Posted in Cybersecurity News, IT News

Cybersecurity Announcement: WordPress Releases Patch for High Severity SQL Injection Vulnerability

Posted on September 1, 2022

WordPress has released version 6.0.2.  This security and maintenance release contains patches for 3 vulnerabilities, including a high severity SQL Injection vulnerability in the Links functionality (CVSS Score of 8.0), as well as two Medium Severity Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities.

Posted in Cybersecurity Announcements, netid protected

Cybersecurity Announcement: Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center Critical Vulnerability (CVE-2022-36804)

Posted on September 1, 2022

Atlassian has published a security advisory warning Bitbucket Server and Data Center users of a critical security flaw that allows remote attackers with access to public repositories or read access to private Bitbucket repositories to execute arbitrary code.

Posted in Cybersecurity Announcements, netid protected

8/29 phishing alert! Subject: “School Job Offer”

Posted on August 29, 2022

Watch out for an active phishing campaign on campus in which the attacker offers a a part-time, work-from-home job.

Posted in COVID-19, IT News, Scams

Cybersecurity Announcement: Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool and Point-to-Point Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2022-34713) and (CVE-2022-30133)

Posted on August 10, 2022

Microsoft released announcements for known vulnerabilities addressed in their Tuesday Patch release. Two are considered Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities, meaning an attacker can exploit the system vulnerabilities remotely.

Posted in Cybersecurity Announcements, netid protected

Cybersecurity Announcement: Django SQL injection vulnerability

Posted on July 5, 2022

Django, an open-source Python-based web framework, has detected a SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2022-34265) in some recent versions.

Posted in Cybersecurity Announcements, netid protected

Cybersecurity Announcement: Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034 PwnKit)

Posted on June 26, 2022

Qualys researchers discovered a Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034) in polkit’s pkexec, a program that is installed by default on every major Linux distribution.

Posted in Cybersecurity Announcements, netid protected

Cybersecurity Announcement: Critical Illumina vulnerabilities (multiple CVEs)

Posted on June 7, 2022

Four critical vulnerabilities were discovered in Illumina Local Run Manager (LRM), software used by sequencing instruments to aid in genetic analysis.

Posted in Cybersecurity Announcements, netid protected

Attend the Cybersecurity Forward virtual webinar series

Posted on June 7, 2022

Every Wed at noon, Jun 22-Jul 27: Come and learn information technology essentials, explore pertinent tools and case studies, and discover ways to hone your leadership skills. Receive Continuing Professional Education credits (CPEs) for each session you attend!

Posted in Cybersecurity News, IT News
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