What’s even harder for students than getting their homework done? Finding a job. Lately, an online trend has been brewing and unfortunately has affected Ohio State students. According to Fisher College’s Office of Career Management, employers are offering students jobs online and scamming them...
Cybersecurity is a major focus at Ohio State. Not only do external regulators require us to manage our health, financial, student and research data securely, but our students and partners also expect an exceptional level of data security from Ohio State.
It’s tax time again. Millions of Americans are filing for returns and making plans for how to use the money. Attackers have other ideas for that tax return.
TurboTax promotes itself as the number one, best-selling tax preparation software. No doubt they hold credentials belonging to millions of Americans who have used them for their taxes. Now, officials report an attacker obtained tax return data through a credential stuffing hack on their platform.
There’s a new phishing scheme targeting Ohio State employees . Here’s what to look for:
You receive a message that looks like it is from someone you know – maybe a manager, dean or executive. The sender asks you to purchase gift cards on his/her behalf because s/he is in meetings and too...
The Information Security Executive® (ISE®) awards program recently recognized Chief Information Security Officer Helen Patton as ISE® North American Executive of the Year in the Academic/Public division. She was honored during the ISE® North America Leadership Summit and Awards held in Chicago...
On Oct. 29, Ohio State welcomed Holly Drake into the newly created position of Chief Privacy Officer. Data privacy needs are increasingly far reaching, spanning the worlds of both regulation and data ethics. In this new role, Drake will have a dual reporting relationship to both Chief...
Beginning on Thursday, October 11 when you log into systems protected by BuckeyePass powered by Duo, you will now have the option use a “Remember me for 1 day” feature. Using this feature will enable BuckeyePass to trust that specific device and...
As announced last month, BuckeyePass will protect eTimesheet and eLeave beginning on Sept. 30. Since we began expanding the number of applications protected by BuckeyePass , we’ve heard some concerns about difficulties connecting because...
New semester, new schedule. New tuition payment. Are you sure you are all paid up? So sure that when the scammer calls you threatening to drop your classes if you don’t pay, you are unlikely to hand them your credit card number?
How about that strange text you got from a random number,...
