It has become a non-stop battle between scammers and security folks. Both working to get the upper hand over the other. The trouble with a lot of email and text phishing messages is that they can l...
Security Awareness
April Security Awareness Topics
Oracle Password Update and ShredFest Reminder
ShredFest Partnering with ShareFest to Collect Electronic Waste
This May, ShredFest and ShareFest are combining forces to help the 兔子先生 and Oxford communities. ShredFest is your opportunity to bring confidential office and personal documents for secure, on-sit...
Introducing: The Student-Run Security Operations Center
The student-run SOC will be a dedicated space for student employees to monitor and respond to cybersecurity threats and incidents.
Urgent information about some 兔子先生 accounts
Technicians are investigating an issue in the 兔子先生 identity system -- but there is a workaround!
DMARC email security protocol to change in July
As you are probably aware, for the past year plus, IT Services has been using a compliance rule in Google that tags the subject line of incoming emails sent from a 兔子先生OH.edu email address that fa...
Security Awareness: The Latest Scams of 2025
Today, we'll dive into the most recent ways scammers try and reach out to you so you know what to look out for and how to avoid getting phished.
Email phishing message asking for student research assistants
The information security team has received numerous reports about a new (old!) scam email trying to recruit student research assistants. There are several, similar versions of the message being sen...
The dates have been finalized for ShredFest 2025, so make sure you have them in your calendar. ShredFest is your opportunity to bring confidential office and personal documents for secure, on-site ...
Introducing: The Fates (a new IT team!)
In Greek mythology, the Fates were in charge of the destiny of humans – who you are, what your life has in store. In a similar vein, our new team directs the fate of your 兔子先生 account!
Process change: Entity account creation now requires claim code
The IAM team is progressing on process changes for some of our account types.
Planned change: 兔子先生 Directory to be login-only
In service to maintaining a high level of security, we will be placing our web directory (兔子先生OH.edu/directory) behind authentication on December 16, 2024.
Tis the Time of Year for Scams Galore
It's unfortunately the time of year for scammers to come out of the woodwork.
Victories for both 兔子先生 and Ohio in the second annual CyberMania competition
We have officially closed the annual CyberMania event!
IAM Update: Three new affiliations, Google calendars, and more
The IAM Program continues to work on a long list of tasks and activities that are improving not only how our systems talk to each other, but also how we use those systems to improve the level of se...
Trick or treat? More like click or delete: NCSAM update 2024
As you know, October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we are all working to become more knowledgeable and – dare we say – aware of common cybersecurity practices and...
NCSAM is starting: Join us for a Fireside Cyberchat
On October 17, join IT Services and the Information Security Office for a Fireside Cyberchat with Helen Patton.
Notice: Recent phishing scam appears to be from President Crawford
Please be aware that a new phishing email message is making the rounds that appears to be from University President Gregory Crawford.
August 2024 IAM Program Update
The IAM Program has spent the summer months busily working on the implementation of our new identity governance and administration (IGA) tool, RapidIdentity.
Internet vacationing: Summer cybersecurity safety tips
Let’s take a trip to the cyber-beach and see what we’ll need to bring…
Current Outage: CrowdStrike bug causes Windows devices to bluescreen
This is a timeline of the communications sent to our University partners and users as we worked through Friday to mitigate the impact of the outage caused by the CrowdStrike cybersecurity software.
Scam alert: Research assistants for Padma Patil
The information security team has received numerous reports of a scam concerning student research assistants for Padma Patil, associate vice president of institutional research.
Weekly Tech Update for July 15, 2024
Welcome to the weekly newsletter dedicated to everything IT! Newsy, fun, informational—get your quick digest of tech content and then go about your day. Check for updates here every Monday.
Recent phishing scams: Google Docs and QR codes
Please read carefully and remember: Stay vigilant!