From time to time we invite guests to provide their insights on topics in this monthly column. Online meetings are becoming more central to how we work together during the pandemic and beyond. As a result, attackers are finding new ways to disrupt them. We asked Rick Hoar, executive director of Media and Event Technology […]
What happened?Over the weekend and this morning, FIT (and many of our peer SUNY campuses) received emails from several senders all purporting to represent the IRS, with a subject line of “Recalculating Your Tax Refund Payment.” The emails contained a click button that brings users to a site that looks like an IRS.gov site, but […]
What happened?An advisory has just been released by one the Higher Education cybersecurity communication groups alerting us to two phishing campaigns targeting students using the lure of the Pell Grant. The first one attempts to contact students by text message, a form of phishing called “SMiShing,” congratulating them on their acceptance into the Pell Grant Award […]
New threats emerge in the world of cybersecurity every day. For example, in early February Google patched a 0-day vulnerability in Chrome. A “0-day” basically means that the bad guys found the vulnerability and used it before the vendor did, and now the vendor is catching up. The good news is that vendors are being […]
Welcome back after what we hope was a restful holiday break. This edition of the CISO Update will cover two topics: one a reminder and another a new and important initiative. First, many of us shortly will begin another semester of remote work due to the pandemic. We hope everyone has stayed safe and will […]
For those who have been receiving this newsletter for a while, you’ll recall that our December update usually focuses on ways to protect yourself from holiday-themed phishing scams—and of course, that’s still very relevant this year. (Visit it.fitnyc.edu/holidayscams2017/ for some of our holiday guidelines and remember our “4 Dont’s” of phishing protection.) However, this article focuses instead […]
Often we use this monthly column to let you know about cybersecurity trends and events in the higher education space or in the world at large. This month we’re going to focus on something that happened here at FIT, because it illustrates several key points about how each of us can protect the college and […]
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), and as we close the month out it seems like whoever decided back in 2004 that NCSAM would occur every October must have had a crystal ball tuned directly to 2020. Never before has information security been so clearly a front-and-center topic. There are several reasons for […]
We hope you are all having a safe and enjoyable start to the fall semester. As we continue working, teaching, and learning remotely, we would like to keep providing tips and best practices to keep your home computers and home networks secure. To secure your home computer and home network: Antivirus: Make sure you have an […]
Welcome back! We hope you all had a safe and enjoyable summer. FIT’s plan for reopening in fall 2020, which prioritizes the health and safety of the FIT community, includes the online safety of FIT digital information, data, and resources. This is the second of our monthly campuswide information security updates. There are many aspects […]