In addition to providing exceptional security and protection from viruses and malware, Etown’s new antivirus software, FortiClient, has a VPN connection option. If you use a college-owned laptop with FortiClient installed, you can begin to use the VPN component immediately.…
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Change in VPN Connection Software
Posted in Computer Tips, Cybersecurity, Digital Citizenship, Home Page Tagged with: computer, faculty, FortiClient, Network Drive, staff, technology, VPN
Protecting Your Account with MFA
At this time of year phishers and scammers are counting on you being too busy and distracted to pay real attention to their attacks. Entering your password in a malicious website (that is pretending to look like a legitimate Etown-related website)…
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Posted in Computer Tips, Cybersecurity, Digital Citizenship, Home Page, Web Tips, Windows 10 Tagged with: cybersecurity, email, multi-factor authentication, password, security, tech tip, technology
Maintain Account Access with MFA
We’re all getting ready to put the Fall 2020 semester behind us and prepare for 2021, but with the temporary shift away from our roles as Etown College community members we need to remember that network passwords still expire over…
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Posted in Computer Tips, Cybersecurity, Digital Citizenship, Home Page, Windows 10 Tagged with: computer, cybersecurity, email, multi-factor authentication, password, tech tip
Etown’s Status Page
Cant log into you email? Can’t submit your assignment on Canvas? Can’t connect to your Zoom meeting? Now with Etown’s new status page you can check if you are the only one having the issue. Our new status page displays…
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Posted in Computer Tips, Digital Citizenship, Home Page, Web Tips Tagged with: Canvas, computer, email, phone, Print, Statuspage, web, Wireless
Quarantine Email Folder
You may have seen a new folder called “Quarantine” in your email. And there may have been a message in the folder, but now it’s gone… No, you’re not seeing things! The folder and any messages in it are part…
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Posted in Computer Tips, Cybersecurity, Digital Citizenship, Home Page, Training, Windows 10 Tagged with: cybersecurity, email, phish, Phish Alert Button, security, tech tip
RDP, VPN, MFA… WTH?
Recently overheard at the ITS Help Desk: To use that program from off campus, you can RDP into the terminal server, but in order to RDP you have to connect through VPN, and that requires that you have MFA set…
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Posted in Computer Tips, Digital Citizenship, Home Page, New Student Tips, Teaching and Learning, Training, Windows 10 Tagged with: computer, multi-factor authentication, RDP, remote desktop, VPN
Ransomware Infections on the Rise – COVID-19
We recently received the following information via an announcement from our anti-virus software provider Cisco AMP for Endpoints: The Cisco AMP for Endpoints research team has observed increasing incidences of malicious activity culminating in ransomware. These incidents often begin with…
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Posted in Computer Tips, Cybersecurity, Digital Citizenship, Home Page, Training, Web Tips Tagged with: cybersecurity, faculty, phish, security, staff, students, technology
Fake Charity Websites – COVID-19
KnowBe4, our partner in cybersecurity, have provided suggestions and resources for keeping your accounts safe in these uncertain times. This post, and all of those in this series, are taken directly from their website. Fake charity websites: There has been…
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Posted in Computer Tips, Cybersecurity, Digital Citizenship, Home Page, Training, Web Tips Tagged with: cybersecurity, faculty, phish, security, staff, students, technology
Phishing Scams – Fake Safety Information – COVID-19
KnowBe4, our partner in cybersecurity, have provided suggestions and resources for keeping your accounts safe in these uncertain times. This post, and all of those in this series, are taken directly from their website. Phishing scams – Fake safety information:…
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Phishing Scams – Fake Internal Communications – COVID-19
KnowBe4, our partner in cybersecurity, have provided suggestions and resources for keeping your accounts safe in these uncertain times. This post, and all of those in this series, are taken directly from their website. Phishing scams – Fake internal communications:…
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Cybersecurity – COVID-19
KnowBe4, our partner in cybersecurity, have provided suggestions and resources for keeping your accounts safe in these uncertain times. This post, and the next several in this series, are taken directly from their website. Watch out for scams! After global…
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What’s Multi-Factor Authentication?
In an effort to stay one step ahead of the cybercriminals, Information & Technology Services is working to provide multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect you. Usernames and passwords are increasingly becoming a target for theft and often, the target (you) isn’t even…
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Posted in Digital Citizenship, Home Page Tagged with: faculty, multi-factor authentication, security, staff, students, technology
Happy Holidays from Phishing Scams
Phishing is word that strikes fear in the heart of anyone concerned with cybersecurity (which should be everyone). These scams increase in frequency over the holiday season, since people are busier and less likely to carefully inspect a message to…
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Posted in Digital Citizenship, Home Page Tagged with: faculty, phish, security, staff, students, technology
New Spam Filter System
On Monday, October 7th, ITS activated an enhanced spam filtering system which is designed to give the user more control over which emails are delivered. Previously, the system had two categories for email – deliver or block. This made some messages…
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Posted in Digital Citizenship, Home Page Tagged with: email, faculty, phish, security, staff, students, technology
Network Drives
Network drives are a valuable resource that E-town offers its faculty, staff, and students. They can be used for document sharing for anything from clubs collaborating to faculty sharing files with their classes to students working on a group project. Each…
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Posted in Digital Citizenship, Home Page, New Student Tips Tagged with: Network Drive, students, technology