Two-factor authentication (2FA), which was expanded last spring as part of Northeastern’s ongoing efforts to protect personal and institutional data, has already made a difference in keeping members of the university community safe online. Northeastern went from...
We’re in a digital age in which it seems that nearly every website requires a password, with various lengths and combinations of letters, numbers, special characters, and capitalization. It can be frustrating to juggle all of those passwords. Even, worse, they can be...
There are over 1,000 institutions, 37,000 active users, and 12,000 active endpoints that are connected to the Globus service for file sharing. Do you spend precious time worrying about how to share your large datasets and files? Are you looking for faster and easier...
As some of you may be aware, Northeastern University has been the target of multiple phishing campaigns over the past few months that impersonate leaders at the university, including deans, directors, and department chairs. These emails often express urgency and...
Northeastern ITS is committed to better protecting you and your information. One of the ways we can do this is to stop all of those pesky phish from spamming your inbox, so we’ve been working to better secure your email. We rolled out a new feature over the...
Malicious phishing and malware emails continue to target members of the university community. All of these various attacks induce readers to click on a link to a malicious website—often a very convincing rendition of the Northeastern login page. As part of the ongoing...
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