Articles (7)

December 2022 Security Topic - Fake Loan Forgiveness Emails

Recently SUNY Brockport email accounts have been getting phishing emails claiming students have unclaimed money.

February 2023 Security Topic - The Need to Protect User Credentials and Access

What do phishers, scammers, criminals on the internet want? Increasingly they want user credentials.

March 2023 Security Topic - MFA Fatigue Attacks

As with anything easy and convenient, attackers have started manipulating the push notification process using a technique called “MFA Fatigue”.

March 2023 Security Topic - U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy 2023

On March 1, 2023, the White House published an updated National Cybersecurity Strategy. The newest strategy is significant for many reasons. The federal government has learned many lessons in the past 20 years from dealing with malicious nation state actors, widespread criminal activity, and overt election interference. Public/private partnership efforts undertaken since the first strategy release, have also clearly informed this newest strategy in some insightful ways.

November 2022 Security Topic - Account Compromise

Recently SUNY Brockport experienced an account compromise leading to a campus wide phishing email. It was quickly reported to BITS and our office responded quickly to regain control of the account and assess what happened.

November 2022 Security Topic - Social Engineering

What is social engineering and how do we detect it?