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Time for another reminder that MIT students, faculty, and staff have access to the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver.

MIT community members can learn how get started with Creative Cloud at ist.mit.edu/adobe/cc.

Time for another reminder that MIT students, faculty, and staff have access to the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver. MIT community members can learn how get started with Creative Cloud at ist.mit.edu/adobe/cc.
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Did you recently get a fancy new mobile phone? Congrats! If your old phone was registered with Duo authentication at MIT, we have instructions for how to deactivate the old one and register the new one at ist.mit.edu/duo-switch-pho…. 📱

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Happy Halloween! IS&T encourages MIT community members to make today (and every day) less scary by taking a number of precautions to protect their accounts, devices, and inform from evil-doers.

Review our secure computing recommendations for MITers at ist.mit.edu/security.

Happy Halloween! IS&T encourages MIT community members to make today (and every day) less scary by taking a number of precautions to protect their accounts, devices, and inform from evil-doers. Review our secure computing recommendations for MITers at ist.mit.edu/security.
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Reminder/request to report phishy emails to us, MITers. Please and thank you. twitter.com/MIT_ISTnews/st…

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Hopefully, your MIT Kerberos account will never ever be compromised but, if it is, our Security team has advice and information for what to do.

See the steps we recommend you take if your Kerb is ever compromised at ist.mit.edu/compromised-ke…. 💀😱

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Throwback today to Halloween decorations in the IS&T offices a few years ago. Fun (and spooky) times! 🎃💀👻

Throwback today to Halloween decorations in the IS&T offices a few years ago. Fun (and spooky) times! 🎃💀👻
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To help MITers avoid falling for phishing scams, IS&T has collected a number of real phishing emails received by community members so others can see examples of these scams.

You can see them in the MIT Phish Bowl at ist.mit.edu/phishbowl.🐟

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If you work or study here at MIT, you are, unfortunately, a popular target for email scams, such as phishing, like this recent example.

IS&T has important info and advice for how MIT community members can identify and avoid phishing emails at ist.mit.edu/phishing. 🎣

If you work or study here at MIT, you are, unfortunately, a popular target for email scams, such as phishing, like this recent example. IS&T has important info and advice for how MIT community members can identify and avoid phishing emails at ist.mit.edu/phishing. 🎣
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a good time to remind all MITers to forward any phishy email *as an attachment* to [email protected] so our Security team can take steps to protect the community.

We have info on how to forward an email as an attachment at ist.mit.edu/forward-email-….

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a good time to remind all MITers to forward any phishy email *as an attachment* to phishing@mit.edu so our Security team can take steps to protect the community. We have info on how to forward an email as an attachment at ist.mit.edu/forward-email-….
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Let us count the ways that the Institute's VPN can be of service to MITers. twitter.com/MIT_ISTnews/st…

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In order to work remotely, you first need a proper workspace. You should also make sure you are being cybersecure. IS&T can help with the latter.

We have tips for how MITers can secure their accounts, devices, and info while away from campus at ist.mit.edu/news/remote-se…. 📦🔐

In order to work remotely, you first need a proper workspace. You should also make sure you are being cybersecure. IS&T can help with the latter. We have tips for how MITers can secure their accounts, devices, and info while away from campus at ist.mit.edu/news/remote-se…. 📦🔐
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When you are thinking about cybersecurity, don't forget your home WiFi network. For starters, change your router's admin password (did you know it had one?) to something strong.

We have more tips for how MITers can be secure when working remotely at ist.mit.edu/news/remote-se….

When you are thinking about cybersecurity, don't forget your home WiFi network. For starters, change your router's admin password (did you know it had one?) to something strong. We have more tips for how MITers can be secure when working remotely at ist.mit.edu/news/remote-se….
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Congratulations and welcome to MIT's next president, Dr. Sally Kornbluth! 🎉 twitter.com/MIT/status/158…

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If you need to share an electronic file with sensitive information, IS&T recommends encrypting the file first to protect its contents. Note that file encryption is different from whole disk encryption.

We have info for MITers about encrypting files at ist.mit.edu/file-encryption.

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Important cybersecurity tip: Before disposing of an old computer or mobile device, be sure to properly wipe it to ensure that it doesn’t contain sensitive information.

We have detailed information about effective media sanitizing at ist.mit.edu/remove-data. 💻✏️

Important cybersecurity tip: Before disposing of an old computer or mobile device, be sure to properly wipe it to ensure that it doesn’t contain sensitive information. We have detailed information about effective media sanitizing at ist.mit.edu/remove-data. 💻✏️
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