{"id":1631,"date":"2021-08-24T09:46:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T13:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2023-09-14T11:10:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:10:45","slug":"information-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"Information Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-1523\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shield-1086703_640.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\">With the beginning of the new academic year, cybercriminals are hard at work. Phishing attacks are up by 11% over last year and ransomware makes up 10% of data breaches in 2021, more than twice that of 2020<sup>1<\/sup>. Luckily there are some healthy security practices that we all can take to reduce risk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Beware of email messages urgently requesting personal information. Look out for fake logos, signatures, or suspicious sender email addresses.<\/li><li>Make sure that all of your devices, apps, browsers, and antivirus software are up-to-date.<\/li><li>Think twice before clicking links or opening attachments.<\/li><li>Protect your passwords and use different passwords for your work, school, and personal accounts.<\/li><li>When visiting campus, do not leave your personal belongings unattended.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Enable your lock-screen and find-my-phone where available.<\/li><li>Delete sensitive information if you no longer require it.<\/li><li>See something, say something. Report suspicious activity or suspected scams.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact Richard Phung, Information Security Analyst, <a href=\"mailto:richard.phung@simmons.edu\">richard.phung@simmons.edu<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/servicedesk.simmons.edu\/getsupport\/general\">the Service Desk<\/a> for more information or assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the beginning of the new academic year, cybercriminals are hard at work. Phishing attacks are up by 11% over last year and ransomware makes up 10% of data breaches in 2021, more than twice that of 20201. Luckily there are some healthy security practices that we all can take to reduce risk: Beware of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70,12,36],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technews","tag-70","tag-information-security","tag-technews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}