Archive for the ‘Security’ Category

Tax fraud is a growing national problem. In 2014, tax fraud was 32.8% of identity theft complaints received by the FTC, the largest category of such complaints. A small number of members of the BU community have been notified by the IRS that a tax return has already been submitted for their SSN. This does…

Boston University’s Information Services and Technology Department was named the recipient of a 2015 CSO50 Award from IDG’s CSO Magazine. Learn more! …

Beginning Tuesday, October 14, all BU employees, including faculty and student employees, will be automatically enrolled in Duo Security for the BUworks Central Portal at www.bu.edu/buworkscentral. If you are not already enrolled in Duo, you will be prompted to enroll a device the first time you attempt to log in on or after October 14….

As part of the 4th Annual Information Security Awareness Week, IS&T’s Information Security team will be bringing a shredding truck to the locations described below. We will be on hand to accept custody of your paper documents to ensure they are immediately shredded.  In addition, we can assist with the destruction of hard drives, CDs…

We are providing detailed information about the recent Shellshock vulnerability on our Information Security site. Learn more! http://www.bu.edu/infosec/2014/09/26/gnu-bourne-again-shell-bash-shellshock-vulnerability/…

About Heartbleed and the BU response On Monday night, a major security vulnerability called Heartbleed was announced. That vulnerability impacts a large number of web sites throughout the world, as well as servers here at BU that use OpenSSL to provide encrypted web pages.  If a server is vulnerable, an attacker can steal sensitive information…

As described in the Minimum Security Standards guidelines, “All BU faculty and staff are expected to be familiar with the Data Management Guide, Data Protection Standards and Minimum Security Standards to ensure understanding of how to handle Confidential or Restricted Use information properly… If you use a personal device to connect to the BU network…

at www.bu.edu/today/2014/university-to-tighten-cybersecurity/….

Boston University is committed to securing the personal information of our faculty and staff. In light of the recent Phishing events the Direct Deposit banking information on Employee Self Service (ESS) was disabled as a security precaution. A working group was formed and has been working diligently to develop more robust security measures to safeguard…

IS&T has again received several reports of a phishing message being received by members of our community…