News and Events

March, 2022

Mar 31 March 31st is World Backup Day!

Mar 01 Russian Cyber Criminals Pose Threat Amid International Uncertainty

December, 2021

Dec 08 Data can be obtained from encrypted messaging apps as shown by a newly discovered FBI document

November, 2021

Nov 15 Compromised FBI Email Server Used to Send Spam Messages

Nov 08 Phishers Impersonate Proofpoint to Steal O365, Google Passwords

August, 2021

Aug 24 DHS: Beware “Hurricane Henri” Scams

June, 2021

Jun 29 CISA Creates Catalog of Bad Cybersecurity Practices

Jun 09 Amazon Sidewalk ‘Mesh’ Network Enabled by Default, Here’s How to Turn it Off

April, 2021

Apr 01 IRS Warns of Impersonation Scam Targeting Colleges

November, 2020

Nov 24 Fordham Partners with LinkedIn Learning

October, 2020

Oct 26 Microsoft Teams Phishing Attack Targets Office 365 Users

September, 2020

Sep 25 Ransomware Risk Increases as Virtual Learning Expands

July, 2020

Jul 20 7 VPN Services Expose 1.2 TB of User Data

Jul 16 Convincing Phishing Campaign Spoofs Zoom Email Address

April, 2020

Apr 27 Key Zoom Features for Secure Meetings

Apr 14 Aggressive Phishing Campaigns Target Pandemic Fears

March, 2020

Mar 23 Major Data Breach Exposes Database Containing 200 Million Users

Mar 20 Public Zoom Settings Can Allow Unwanted Visitors to Join Meetings and Share Unsavory Content

Mar 19 FTC: Beware Scammers Offering COVID-19 Money

Mar 12 Fraudulent Coronavirus Map Delivers Malware

January, 2020

Jan 24 As Windows 7 Reaches End of Life, New Scams Emerge

December, 2019

Dec 12 FBI Offers Tips for Safe Online Shopping

November, 2019

Nov 18 Phishing Scam Warning That Your Password Will be Changed

October, 2019

Oct 22 FBI: China Behind Intellectual Property Theft at US Universities

July, 2019

Jul 30 A hacker gained access to 100 million Capital One credit card applications and accounts

June, 2019

Jun 12 Criminals Try to Schedule Spam in Google Calendar

April, 2019

Apr 12 Article: “Hackers broke into university networks in just two hours”

March, 2019

Mar 12 Malware Infection Causes 2 Day Shutdown of Columbia State College

February, 2019

Feb 26 TurboTax Accounts Breached

January, 2019

Jan 15 University of California tells students not to use WeChat, WhatsApp in China

December, 2018

Dec 12 Google+ Software Update Responsible for a Security Bug Impacting 52.5 million Users

Dec 10 Marriott Announces Breach Impacting 500 Million Customers

September, 2018

Sep 28 Alert: Facebook discloses network breach affecting 50 million user accounts

Sep 14 Potential Hurricane Florence Phishing Scams

Sep 10 Apple Removes Popular “Adware Doctor” App for Stealing User Browsing History

May, 2018

May 29 FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices

April, 2018

Apr 10 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): What you need to know

February, 2018

Feb 20 IRS Scam Leverages Hacked Tax Preparers, Client Bank Accounts

Feb 15 Scammers Mimic Apple in Latest Round of Phishing Campaigns

Feb 14 Chrome to Start Blocking Annoying Ads February 15

Feb 08 Educational Institutions Attractive Target for Cybercriminals

January, 2018

Jan 05 Meltdown & Spectre – How to Protect Yourself

November, 2017

Nov 30 Critical macOS High Sierra Update

October, 2017

Oct 03 Alert: Tragic Event Related Scams

August, 2017

Aug 15 Article: Hackers Say Humans Most Responsible for Security Breaches

May, 2017

May 18 Article: Apple fixes dozens of security bugs for iPhones, Macs.

May 18 Alert: Critical Microsoft Vulnerability

May 09 Alert: Employment Scam Targeting College Students Remains Prevalent

May 04 Google provides explanation on recent Google Docs campaign

March, 2017

Mar 29 Article: Mobile Safari Scareware Campaign Thwarted

Mar 24 Article: Google slaps Symantec for sloppy certs, slow show of SNAFUs

Mar 22 Article: Data Breaches Skyrocketing In NY, A Million People Exposed

February, 2017

Feb 23 Multifactor Authentication Enrollment

January, 2017

Jan 27 Vulnerability Discovered in Cisco’s WebEx Extension for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

December, 2016

Dec 16 Article: Hacked Yahoo Data Is for Sale on Dark Web

Dec 15 Article: 1 Billion Yahoo Accounts Stolen

November, 2016

Nov 28 Article: How to protect yourself while online shopping for the holidays

Nov 10 Article: Post-Election Spear Phishing Campaigns

October, 2016

Oct 28 Article: Free Tools to Remove Ransomware Infections From Your PC

Oct 03 Cyber Security Awareness Month LearnIT Sessions

September, 2016

Sep 23 Article: 500 Million Yahoo Accounts Stolen

Sep 08 Article: Fake-Game: The Emergence of a Phishing-as-a-Service Platform

Sep 08 Article: Update OS X Right Now or You Could Get Some Nasty Spyware

Sep 01 Article: Dropbox hack ‘affected 68 million users’

August, 2016

Aug 29 Alert: Update your IPhone device ASAP. Major Vulnerability discovered.

Aug 23 Article: Linux bug leaves 1.4 billion Android users vulnerable to hijacking attacks

Aug 16 Article: 20 hotels suffer hack costing tens of thousands their credit card information

June, 2016

Jun 27 Security Alert: LogMeIn Forced Password Reset

Jun 20 Article: GoToMyPC Accounts Hacked

Jun 09 Article: 32 Million Twitter Passwords Potentially Being Sold On DarkWeb

Jun 02 Security Awareness: TeamViewer Service Outage

May, 2016

May 26 Security Awareness: LinkedIn User Password Leak Update

May 25 Low Email Storage Alert- Phishing Email Sent to the Fordham Community on 05/24/16

May 19 Article: Hackers Selling 117 Million LinkedIn Passwords

May 06 Article: Cyber Experts: Change Passwords After Massive Hack

February, 2016

Feb 25 Article: Phishing Remains Top Attack Vector for Criminals

Feb 08 Article: Smoking vs. Weak Passwords

Feb 03 Remote Update for Internet Explorer 11 on University-owned Workstations Scheduled for February 3, 2016

January, 2016

Jan 28 Data Privacy Day 2016

Jan 21 The worst passwords of 2015!

Jan 15 Internet Explorer End of Life – Update Required

November, 2015

Nov 03 Hacking tool swipes encrypted credentials from password manager

October, 2015

Oct 26 Article: How To Stop Ransomware, The Cyberattack That Holds Your Computer Hostage Until You Pay

Oct 22 Article: Support Scams That Plagued Windows Users For Years Now Target Mac Customers

August, 2015

Aug 20 Article: Elastica Cloud Threat Labs Discovered Latest Google Drive Phishing Campaign!

Aug 19 Article: E-ZPass Warns About Phishing Scam Targeting Customers

Aug 03 Article: Don’t Get Fooled Into Clicking Phony Windows 10 Upgrade Emails

July, 2015

Jul 30 Article: There’s (Almost) Nothing You Can Do About Stagefright

Jul 29 Article: Higher Education Faces Growing Security Challenge With Low Budgets, Cultural Barriers

Jul 26 Article: Trying To Keep Your Data Safe? You’re Probably Doing It Wrong

June, 2015

Jun 23 Article: Password Recovery Scam: How Hackers Are Stealing Gmail, Yahoo Mail Accounts

Jun 15 Article – LastPass Security Notice

Jun 05 Article – U.S. Government Hacked; Investigators Believe China Is The Culprit

April, 2015

Apr 16 Article – Email Phishing Attacks Take Just Minutes to Hook Recipients

April, 2014

Apr 11 Update on the Heartbleed bug

March, 2014

Mar 19 WATCH OUT! Scammers targeting Google Account with Phishing Page hosted on Google Drive

February, 2014

Feb 19 Fordham IT Implements a New Password Expiration Initiative

December, 2013

Dec 19 Target customers’ card data said to be at risk after store thefts

July, 2012

Jul 12 Hackers expose 453,000 credentials allegedly taken from Yahoo service

Jul 03 Malware writers adopt ‘a la carte’ development approach – IT News from V3.co.uk

April, 2012

Apr 02 Global Payments: Data breach is contained | ZDNet

August, 2011

Aug 24 Facebook Offers Security Guide – Security – Vulnerabilities and threats – Informationweek

Aug 17 10 Cool Security Features In Mac OS X Lion

Aug 17 Let’s be safe out there!

Aug 08 Meet Dark Tangent, the hacker behind Black Hat and DEF CON – CNN.com

July, 2011

Jul 25 We are not the NSA or a bank… but you should protect yourself like them

Jul 01 Secure Wireless Networks Available

January, 2011

Jan 27 Facebook catching up with the [security] times and killing Firesheep!

Jan 11 NSA breaks ground on $1.2 bil cybersecurity facility – SC Magazine US

Jan 03 Fordham Notes: Forum to Discuss Online Threats

November, 2010

Nov 18 Cyber security by the numbers: Malware surges, spam declines in third quarter | ZDNet

September, 2010

Sep 13 Personal information stolen from more than 7,000 people associated with Rice University | abc13.com

December, 2009

Dec 15 Report names top threats to campus networks

August, 2009

Aug 31 Coming Soon – More AccessIT ID Services to be Enabled

Aug 20 The Associated Press: Prosecutors say man stole 130M credit card numbers

Aug 12 UISO Helps It’s Neighbors Protect Their Websites

July, 2009

Jul 08 Yahoo! News Story – North Korea a suspect in cyber attacks in US – Yahoo! News

April, 2009

Apr 12 Conficker worm hits University of Utah computers

Apr 03 Conficker Scareware Scammers Use Symantec as Lure

January, 2009

Jan 23 Credit card processor suffers major data breach

December, 2008

Dec 22 Add this SecureIT Blog to My.Fordham

Dec 18 Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 – Critical: Security Update for Internet Explorer (960714)

Dec 09 Report Calls for Major Cyber Security Overhaul – News and Analysis by PC Magazine

October, 2008

Oct 25 Microsoft to Issue Emergency Security Update Today

Oct 21 Legitimate Email from Fordham IT (AccessIT ID Password Expiration)

Oct 18 56 Arrested in DarkMarket Sting, Says FBI

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