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We are now well into National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Remember, you can always check the Stay Safe Online NCSAM website for more information and tips!

www.staysafeonline.org/ncsam

Cyber security is all about keeping your information safe, including your financial and personal information. In addition to keeping it secure, it’s important to keep it backed up!

Ever lost your phone or tablet? Ever accidentally washed a flash drive, that just happened to have an important copy of a paper? There is even malware that will lock or corrupt important documents.

A backup is a second copy of all your important files — for example, your photos, videos, and documents. Instead of storing it all in one place (like your computer), make sure you keep another copy of everything somewhere safe.

All students have free storage space on our Adams State file server, which is backed up by Computing Services every night. In addition to being accessible in the student labs, you can access your files anywhere via a web browser or mobile app.

Check out our how-to on accessing myfiles.adams.edu:

http://goo.gl/6OSOG6

You can also store multiple copies of your files on Google Drive. All ASU students get 30 GB on their student Google Drive free.

drive.google.com

For more information and tips on backups, check out World Backup Day’s website:

http://www.worldbackupday.com/

If you would like more information on any of our services please let us know!

STOP.  Before you use the Internet, take time to understand the risks and learn how to spot potential problems.

THINK. Take a moment to be certain the path is clear ahead. Watch for warning signs and consider how your actions online could impact your safety, as well as your friend’s and family’s.

CONNECT. Enjoy the Internet with greater confidence, knowing you’ve taken the right steps to safeguard yourself and your computer.

ASU Computing Services

computingservices@adams.edu

719-587-7741

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During the day on both Thursday and Friday of this week, Computing Services will be performing maintenance on the wireless access points in the residence halls. During these two days, there will be intermittent outages for wifi access in the residence halls as the access points are being serviced. Our intent is to have all wireless systems fully up and operational by the end of each day and the entire maintenance completed before the weekend.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, if you have any questions, please call the ASU Computing Services Helpdesk at 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu

Have a great Fall Break!

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As part of our month-long campaign to raise awareness about cyber-security, here is some information regarding two-factor authentication:

Many web services, including your Adams State Google account, allow account protection beyond a password that provides a second layer of security to your account. When logging into your account from an unrecognized device you will be prompted to verify your identity, usually with a verification code.

Why enable 2 factor authentication? It keeps anyone but you OUT of your account. Even if someone compromises your password they will be unable to access your account without the verification code.

StopThinkConnect.org has instructions on enabling 2 factor authentication for services likeGoogle, Facebook, Twitter, and more!

http://stopthinkconnect.org/2stepsahead/how-to-enable-2-step-authentication/

Share that you took action by using #2FA, #2FactorTuesday! and #CyberAware on social media.

Watch for more security tips from Computing Services this October during National Cyber Security Awareness Month!

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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), now in its 12th year, was create to help everyone have the resources to stay safe and secure online.

Cyber security awareness is needed now more than ever! There have been many data breaches in the news recently, especially around sensitive personal information such as healthcare.

So what can you do to protect yourself online? An excellent first step in protecting your privacy is selecting strong passwords. It is important that passwords be long and strong instead of short and sweet, with a combination of numbers, special characters, and lower/uppercase letters.

With all of these requirements, how do you pick a strong password that is easy to remember? Check out this quick video to find out how!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RCsHJfHL_4

Or, check out our how-to for more tips and tricks on choosing and remembering good passwords, including a secure way to store them! (hint: it’s not on a sticky note)

http://howto.adams.edu/index.php/Password_Tips

Just as important as choosing a strong password is using unique passwords for EVERY site you visit. That way even if a site does get compromised, that password can’t be used to access your bank, credit cards, or social media sites.

For more tips visit www.staysafeonline.org.

ASU Computing Services

computingservices@adams.edu

719-587-7741

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Our campus cable television vendor is on campus today and tomorrow finalizing the conversion to the digital cable system for campus. This will require brief outages to campus cable tv service as we finish the necessary maintenance on the system.

If you have any questions, please contact the ASU Computing Services Helpdesk at x7741 or via email at computingservices@adams.edu

Thanks,

Computing Services

Beginning at 9:00 PM, Employee, lab and TEC Classroom PCs will receive updates to Adobe Acrobat, Air, Flash, Firefox and Thunderbird. Employees are encouraged to log off but leave their computers on when leaving work for the day. This will assist the installation of these patches and minimize any impact.

Also beginning at 9:00 PM, campus users may experience brief outages to all campus network services as we install a new traffic shaper and perform critical security updates on several back-end systems. The outages should take less than 10 minutes, with the exception of the campus file server which will be down for roughly 30 minutes.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, if you have any questions, please call the ASU Computing Services Helpdesk at 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu

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Recently Adams State University students have received phishing emails asking for you to verify your account by responding with your username/password or by clicking a link.

Phishing emails are fraudulent emails designed to trick you into disclosing personal information. Adams State University and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your username/password, Social Security number, or confidential personal information. Be suspicious of any email message that asks you to enter or verify personal information, through a website or by replying to the message itself. Never reply to or click the links in a message. If you think the message may be legitimate, go directly to the company’s website (i.e., type the real URL into your browser) or contact the company to see if you really do need to take the action described in the email message.

If you see a message in your inbox that you have identified as phishing please report it through the Gmail web interface.

1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Open the message you’d like to report.
3. At the top-right corner of the message, click the down arrow next to the “Reply” button.
4. Select Report Phishing.

If you have any questions or need any assistance please contact the Computing Services Helpdesk atcomputingservices@adams.edu or 719-587-7741.

Thanks!

Computing Services

As the fall semester gets underway, I’m writing to remind you of the risks involved with illegal downloading and/or sharing of copyrighted music, movies, games and software over the Internet. Unauthorized obtaining, sharing or offering such copyrighted material is illegal and in violation of U.S. copyright law. If caught, you may face severe civil and criminal penalties, including prison and monetary damages. Anyone found to have infringed a copyrighted work may be liable for statutory damages of up to $30,000 for each work and, if found to be willful, that amount may be increased up to $150,000 for each work infringed. Movie and recording companies actively monitor the Internet to identify individuals who are illegally downloading and/or sharing movies and music via peer-to-peer networks.

ASU fully complies with Federal law and takes prompt action when notified that one of its students may be illegally downloading and/or sharing copyrighted material. University Policy 500-008, Unauthorized Downloading and File Sharing of Copyrighted Digital Materials, is located on the ASU Computing Services Website, at http://www.adams.edu/administration/computing/policies/policies.php. If caught, ASU penalties could include loss of access to the campus computer network, disciplinary action and in extreme cases, expulsion from the University.

You may think that the large movie or recording companies won’t bother prosecuting a single university-student downloading or sharing copyrighted material. Think again. Organizations such as the Recording Industry Association of America are serious about protecting their copyrighted material. In 2009, a Boston University graduate student was ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and distributing 30 songs. This comes out to $22,500, per incident, of copyright infringement. There are a number of online sources that provide legal alternatives for downloading or otherwise acquiring copyrighted material. A listing of many of these sites can be found at: http://www.educause.edu/legalcontent.

If you have specific questions regarding ASU’s Unauthorized Downloading and File Sharing Policy please contact the

ASU Computing Services Help Desk at 587-7741 or via email at computingservices@adams.edu.

Thanks and have a great semester!

Computing Services

ASU Computing Services is pleased to announce that today (8/27) we upgraded our overall campus Internet bandwidth from 400 Mbps (megabits per second) to 500 Mbps. For the last several years, we’ve been working to keep up with the bandwidth needs of our campus, and we are hoping this increase will further improve our service to our students and employees.

Having trouble connecting to our network? Our friendly Helpdesk and ResNet technicians are available to help! Please stop by the ASU Computing Services Helpdesk located directly between the Rex Activity Center and the campus green for assistance. You can also call us at 719-587-7741 or send us an email at computingservices@adams.edu

Thanks and have a great day!

Computing Services