Scam of the week 3: Financial Aid for Ukraine During a humanitarian crisis, such as we are seeing in Ukraine, malicious threat actors often try to take advantage of people’s generosity, using social engineering techniques to defraud the well intentioned. …
A common phishing scam involves attaching an HTML file to an email. You will receive an email asking you to review an invoice or document attached to the email. Here is an example: So, what is an HTML attachment? HTML …
Welcome to the first in a series of posts focused on social engineering attacks that we are seeing at the University. What is a social engineering attack? There are a couple of different ways that cybercriminals are trying to get …
Scam of the week #1: Someone? has shared a file with you Read more »
Microsoft Sway is a powerful tool for creating presentations and interactive reports that are distributed via the web. One of Sway‘s biggest advantages is its flexibility. One can make a Sway report look like anything. Since we’re a customer of …
Important CyberSecurity Tip from UTS: Don’t get Sway-ed Read more »
The Tip A couple of weeks ago, we talked about tax time and the Canada Revenue Agency, and the many scammers that come out of the woodwork this time of the year. We focused on the types of scams and …
The Tip Everything from personal information, personal photos, work correspondence, to your banking information and social media activity is valuable. If it’s valuable to you, it’s valuable to cybercriminals. In fact, some of it is valuable to cybercriminals without you …
The Tip Well, it was a nice summer break from blogging Cybersecurity, but the new school year is well underway and it’s time to start thinking Cybersecurity again. This week is not so much a tip as it is a greeting and …
Just a quick note to let you know that the Cybersecurity blog will be taking a summer break. We hope to be publishing again sometime in the fall of 2018.
This week’s topic is The Culture of Security The Tip Our community has its own culture. We have a standardized method of communication. We have dress codes. We have expectations, rules, and a collective personality that exists in the university. …
From Beazley Breach Response Services and Lodestone Security Operations Security, or OpSec, is the mindset of using secure practices. Practicing OpSec helps keep us safe from ne’er-do-wells. Secure your space Don’t leave sensitive documents out when away from your workspace. Lock …
Welcome to the first in what we hope to make a weekly series of Cybersecurity tips. This week’s topic is Passwords and Passphrases. The condensed version is, “passwords are bad, passphrases are better”. This is a ‘b@dPas3Word!’. ‘This is a …
We’re working on it. Watch for big things to come!