Security

The story starts with an innocent email from a supervisor, colleague, or friend asking for your help. They tell you a tale about how they need some gift cards for gifts to family, friends, potential donors, etc...

Dear Faculty, Members, Visitors, and Staff,

As we begin the Spring term at the Institute for Advanced Study, I would like to remind everyone about email safety.

Spotting a scam email can sometimes be difficult, both from an institutional level and...

We are inundated with information nowadays, from the tweets, texts, TV, streaming, email, mentions, etc, etc. This hectic lifestyle puts us into a mode of needing to respond as soon as possible to any interruption or notice that happens in...

Dear Faculty, Members, Visitors, and Staff,

We are pleased to introduce you to the next generation of secure remote access to IAS network resources when traveling or working from home.

Our new VPN system, known as OpenVPN, is easier to use, has a...

Dear Staff,

I'm writing to let you know of a change happening on June 27th, 2018 to our Central Authentication Service (CAS) front page. CAS is used for a single place to sign in for many of our websites that we use here at the IAS. We are...

User submits a suspicious email.

A vulnerability has been found in modern computer processors (after 2009) that allows one program to steal data from another program on the same computer. Computer programs are...

Krack stands for Key Reinstallation Attacks. It is an exploit against the WPA2 protocol that preys on an issue in the protocol itself. These are usually the worst kind of issues, because they affect every...

On September 7, 2017, Equifax CEO Rick Smith announced that on July 29, 2017 Equifax suffered a data breach between May and July 2017. The breach may have included the personal credit information of 143 million Americans, including...

As a security professional, I spend a lot of my time making sure that the bad guys aren't able to break in. I set up all the fancy firewalls and anti-virus to keep us safe. But what happens when a user unknowingly gives up...