November 28, 2018 All Articles 0
Online shopping continues to grow in popularity. This past Cyber Monday was the biggest online shopping day ever in the US, and broke records in mobile sales. Unfortunately, the ease and convenience of online shopping makes the holiday season…
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October 31, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Yvonne Tevis. It was a stormy night on the Dark Web. But on a sunny UC campus one morning, Jack Tern was plowing through email. The ‘replies-to-all’ were driving him batty. So much work piling up, meetings to arrange, invoices…
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October 31, 2018 All Articles 0
By Timo Papandreopoulos and Julie Goldstein. Passwords are the keys to most devices and almost everything you do online. Unfortunately, even the best passwords can get hacked, stolen, or unintentionally shared. Fortunately, there is an easy way to add another…
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October 22, 2018 All Articles 0
By Michelle Phung, Isabelle Nguyen and Julie Goldstein. Passwords are the key to almost everything you do online, and you probably have multiple passwords that you use throughout the day. Choosing hard-to-hack passwords and managing them securely can sometimes seem…
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October 17, 2018 All Articles 0
A team from Information and Educational Technology is behind a very human project that launched in June to help Syrian refugees in Lebanon reclaim their right to education. Web developers did the custom programming for the Article 26 Backpack,…
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October 17, 2018 All Articles 0
By Kevin Valdez and Julie Goldstein. How do I connect securely when I’m on campus? If you have the option, connect to a wired port on campus. If you have to use wireless, make sure you are connected to your…
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October 3, 2018 All Articles 0
By Bill Green, Timo Papandreopoulos and Julie Goldstein. Every new cyber-attack or scam seems to be accompanied by a barrage of cybersecurity tips, pointers, dos and don’ts that we’re expected to follow to keep ourselves and our families safe and secure….
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September 19, 2018 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
UC campuses are gearing up for their annual October cybersecurity education campaigns. These include a few events, open to everyone, that you may want to attend. The events are listed below, but check the event information on the systemwide…
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September 5, 2018 All Articles 0
Register now for the UC Cyber Summit at UC Riverside on October 24. Seats are filling up fast for this popular biannual event. The summits are hosted by the UC Cyber-Risk Coordination Center to provide continuing education and networking…
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By Julie Goldstein. Smartphones and other electronic devices have made it easier to stay in touch and multi-task while traveling. But they can also mean increased cyber risks for keeping your personal and university information private, as well as increased…
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