October 2008 October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month Volume 1, Issue 6 Phishing – How to Avoid Getting Hooked! From the Desk of David Badertscher What is Phishing? Phishing is a scam which attempts to entice email recipients into clicking on a link that takes them to a bogus…
Volume 1 Issue 5 Personal Privacy – How to Protect Your Information From the Desk of David Badertscher As we continue to conduct more business online, such as banking, shopping and other activities, our personal information (such as name, credit card account, address, etc) is increasingly utilized. Personal information has…
NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2008 Volume 1, Issue 4 Firewalls From the Desk of David Badertscher What is a firewall and why should I use one? A firewall is a software program or hardware device that filters the inbound and outbound traffic between your network or computer and the Internet. Firewalls add…
April 2008 Volume 1, Issue 3 From the Desk of David Badertscher SOCIAL ENGINEERING: ARE YOU AT RISK? The term “social engineering” can be defined in various ways, relating to both physical and cyber aspects of that activity. For the purposes of the discussion in this newsletter, social engineering is…
CLLB Information Scurity Newsletter March 2008 Volume 1, Issue 2 Annual Maintenance For Computers From the Desk of David Badertscher Perform Annual Maintenance in Conjunction With Daylight Savings Time Change In addition to your routine security and maintenance processes, you should perform an annual PC “tune up” or maintenance to…
“Wikis are useful business tools. With planning and some staff time, you can make your own online collection of useful articles, tailored to your organization’s needs, to communicate about business processes, manage collective know-how and more” Since many libraries, including law libraries, have expressed an interest in incorporating wikis into…
The following is some updated information that we thought might be of interest. This is not a separate issue of the Newsletter: NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF CYBER SECURITY AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE COORDINATION CYBER INFORMATION BULLETIN DATE ISSUED: February 21, 2008 SUBJECT: Malicious Email Messages Referencing the Lunar Eclipse One…
While reviewing responses to readers of this blawg, I noticed that many seem interested in postings related to information security. Therefore, as an experiment beginning with this posting I plan to include an occasional newsletter covering topics and issues related to information security. As an added activity I serve on…