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.
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 1
By Robert Smith. The University of California has a brand new information security policy!
UC President Janet Napolitano signed the policy, BFB-IS-3: Electronic Information Security Policy, on September 7, 2018.
In an increasingly collaborative world that depends upon shared…
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March 21, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Julie Goldstein. UC recently signed a new systemwide partnership agreement with STOP. THINK. CONNECT.™ , which describes itself as a “global online safety awareness campaign to help all digital citizens stay safer and more secure online.”
By becoming…
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May 2, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Julie Goldstein, Cyber-Risk IT Security Analyst, UCOP. Many of us are familiar with the concept of spring cleaning. Well it applies to the digital world too! Just like your home, your digital life can become cluttered; things pile up,…
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