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Category: Security Awareness

  • Fraudulent Unemployment Claims

    Fraudulent Unemployment Claims: Impacts from External Cybersecurity Incidents Such as the Equifax Breach of 2017  Malicious attackers regularly commit unemployment fraud across the United States.  Unfortunately, some of the people who they attempt to impersonate are our employees, and we have seen unemployment fraud attempted at UNC.  The sources of the data used by these criminals stem from numerous security breaches that have occurred at… Read More about Fraudulent Unemployment Claims.

  • Oversharing Online

    Oversharing online while working from brings unique risks.  As folks share desktops for screen shares on calls while presenting at conferences, or even post pictures on social media of their home office, what might a scammer do with this information? Accidentally exposed insights make their jobs of targeting us easier, while the ongoing pandemic – a situation where people are overly anxious, stressed, away from… Read More about Oversharing Online.

  • Upcoming Event: Bits N’ Bytes

    What is Data@Rest: Bits n’ Bytes A half-day virtual event focused on information security that features a variety of voices from the UNC IT community in a TED Talk style format. Some talks are long, some are short, it just depends on the topic! Our goal for this event is to create an opportunity for the IT community to get some CPE credits for certifications,… Read More about Upcoming Event: Bits N’ Bytes.

  • Emerging Scam: COVID-19 Vaccine Phishing

    Similar to the COVID themed phishing messages seen earlier this year (you can read about those here), reports are emerging that similar messages are being received with a newer theme of “COVID Vaccines”. Exploiting fears that shortages may occur, known phishing messages compel recipients to reserve their place in line to get the vaccine by following a link and logging in to site. Others may… Read More about Emerging Scam: COVID-19 Vaccine Phishing.

  • Impersonation Email Scams

    Spoofing / Impersonation  Email spoofing and impersonation are techniques where a scammer creates an email message with a forged sender address in hopes of deceiving the recipient into thinking the email originated from someone they know or recognize. Scammers will use email spoofing to help disguise themselves as a supervisor, professor, or financial organization to trick users into performing some type of action like purchasing… Read More about Impersonation Email Scams.

  • Free Virtual Event Friday Oct. 9th : SecurityCon 2020

    SECURITYCON is a free virtual event for the entire campus community. When: Friday October 9, 2020 Where: This year’s event will be virtual! Registration is available at https://go.unc.edu/securitycon Cost: Nothing – it’s free! Students, faculty, and staff interested in all things information security will have an opportunity to observe tech demos, participate in interactive hacking contests, pick the brains of information security professionals and more…. Read More about Free Virtual Event Friday Oct. 9th : SecurityCon 2020.

  • LastPass Now Available to Campus @ No Cost

    ITS has made the LastPass Premium password manager available to students, faculty and staff for personal use at no cost. As you may recall, we announced last fall at SecurityCon that we would pursue an offering through Internet2 to provide LastPass to campus. Password managers can help you and the campus members you support to protect your digital identity and your online accounts, providing a… Read More about LastPass Now Available to Campus @ No Cost.

  • Using Caution With E-mail Attachments

    Use caution when opening attachments, even when the source e-mail appears to be from someone you know. Always pay close attention to the  “From” line to ensure that the sender is not impersonating someone you normally interact with. Example: personwhosnameyouknow.unc.edu@aol.com. Note the use of unc.edu as part of the address to make it appear more legitimate, when in actuality the domain is aol.com in this… Read More about Using Caution With E-mail Attachments.

  • Updates re: Zoom and Sensitive Data

      It was discovered that some of the information about Zoom on the safecomputing.unc.edu website was incorrect and may have caused some confusion as to whether sensitive information is allowed to be used in Zoom or not.  In addition to updating the safecomputing.unc.edu Zoom page, it is hoped that this message will help clarify things.    FERPA data is allowed in Zoom.  You can discuss… Read More about Updates re: Zoom and Sensitive Data.

  • Data@Rest Security Podcast – Working From Home & Season 2

    UPDATE – 3/18/2020 – Data@Rest has created a special episode to supplement Season 2. It is a bite-sized episode that provides direction to resources and tools for working home securely. It can be accessed through the channels below or DIRECTLY ON OUR LIBSYN STREAMING PAGE. Data @ Rest is an information security podcast intended to present accessible, informed discussions of various topics in computer, network,… Read More about Data@Rest Security Podcast – Working From Home & Season 2.

Last updated: September 6, 2023
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