Security Topic - Physical Security

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Holiday Shopping - Scams

Nearly all of us use the internet to connect to others, shop for gifts, or just browse for good deals.  The problem is criminals know this and are increasing their attacks.  Even if a status update from one of your friends on Facebook says "Free iPhone 5" or free $50 gift card", don't click on it, it might be a scam.  Here are what the experts are saying will be the "hot" scams this year - You can look through the entire article here:
McAfee's 12 Scams of Christmas

• Social media scams
• Malicious Mobile Apps
• Travel Scams
• Holiday Spam/Phishing
• iPhone 5, iPad Mini and other hot holiday gift scams
• Skype Message Scare
• Bogus gift cards
• Holiday SMiShing
• Phony E-tailers
• Fake charities
• Dangerous e-cards
• Phony classifieds

Old Employee Portal (my.cu.edu) Shutdown

Tomorrow November, 14th the old Employee Portal will be shutdown.  All systems previously available in my.cu.edu are now located in the new my.uccs.edu employee portal via the CU Resources Tab within the portal.  If you have student employees please be sure they can access the the CU Resources Tab.  If they do not have a CU Resources Tab please have them contact the Help Desk.

Keeping Campus Safe - The Numbers

Incoming spam and malicious emails kept out of your inbox in the past 30 days: 4,244,078 

Software Update Notes:

• Microsoft November Updates - Please make sure you save your work before you head home tonight (11/13). The updates may cause your computer to reboot.
• Mac November Updates - Be sure to update your Mac, click on the Apple icon in the top left corner and click on Software Update... be sure to install all updates.
• Adobe NovemberUpdates - Be sure to update your Adobe products (11/6).  There are some critical patches to Flash and AIR that affect Windows, OSX and Linux that need to be installed.
• Latest Firefox version: 16.0.2
• Latest Google Chrome Version: 23.0.1271.64
• Latest Java Version for Windows: 7 update 9 or 6 update 37