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May
2022
By Apryl Motley
Hosted by: Sponsored by: Consider this scenario. Students on your campus receive an email directing them to verify their Office 365 accounts or risk account termination. The message’s “click here to verify” link takes the recipients to a phishing webpage that asks for credentials and a phone number.
24
May
2022
By Lawrence Williams
Our work at the Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) centers on promoting advanced cyberinfrastructure capabilities on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), and other minority serving institutions (MSIs). But what exactly is advanced cyberinfrastructure? And more importantly,…
07
Jan
2022
By Miriam Finet, Internet2 Web Content Manager
Happy New Year! It’s safe to say the Internet2 community last year eagerly followed the progress of the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) and news about the Internet2 Network. Based on 2021 engagement metrics, a whopping six of the top 20 blog posts and news announcements featured NGI and…
06
Oct
2021
By Nick Lewis, Program Manager, NET+ Cloud Services – Security and Identity
It’s always great to hear from campuses about what they like about the community and how it has benefited them! The Welcome to 2021 Orientation for Higher Ed Information Security and Privacy panel talked about so many community resources that it was difficult to keep up with and we…
22
Sep
2021
By Adair Thaxton, Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer
Happy September! The trees are starting to turn, and I’m anxiously awaiting the cooler weather. I hope everything is settling down with the new school year! Anvil published an article about how a malicious DHCP server in the WAN can take advantage of “smart” routers and…
31
Aug
2021
By Andrew Gallo, Principal IT Architect, The George Washington University
Routing security continues to be an active area of discussion, both in the research and education networking community and across the industry. Let’s keep the enthusiasm going! IRR Data Clean-Up Steven Wallace, Internet2 Security Architect, has been holding virtual office hours to help community members with all things related to…
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Jul
2021
By Adair Thaxton, Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer
It’s far too hot, y’all. I hope you’re all staying comfortable and not getting sunburned! Brian Krebs reports on a new development in card skimmers. The skimming hardware isn’t visible from outside the device, which is annoying in itself, but the real story is how the thieves…
23
Jun
2021
By Adair Thaxton, Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer
Well, it’s summer, and things are starting to get back to normal in many places. Living in a college town, we typically see fewer people outside in the summer because many of them have gone back home, but I was driving yesterday and was surprised by just how many people…
08
Jun
2021
By Susan Sons, chief security analyst at Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research; deputy director of the Research Security Operations Center (ResearchSOC); and supporting Trusted CI The NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
Register for Open Science Operational Security in Action: ResearchSOC Deployment at NSF Facilities event to be held Thursday, June 17 at 1 p.m. ET. When we work with scientific organizations on cybersecurity, we find that security operations are a heavy lift for them. One challenge is…
12
May
2021
By Adair Thaxton, Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer Happy May! I hope everyone had a nice Mother’s Day. This is normally a bittersweet time of year for me – the students are leaving for the summer, so it’s easier to park and get dinner near campus, but it just feels so empty without them. Just me? Many…
