Loyola Information Security Blog

Once again we are seeing attempts to steal money from unsuspecting victims by giving away “free” musical instruments for a shipping fee. In all of these cases, there are no instruments and once the shipping fee is sent, the criminal gets away with your funds. Often once they get someone on the hook, they’ll ask […]

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Here is the latest job offer scam.  The email has the subject line of “Student and Staffs Employment”  Notice that they attempt to use an incorrect plural of staff. The email appears to come from an active compromised LUC email account which is unrelated to the actual fake “Job”.  Compromised accounts usually have a weak […]

Data Privacy Week begins on Monday, January 24 and is a global effort that generates awareness about the importance of privacy and highlights easy ways to protect personal information. Millions of people are unaware of and uninformed about how their personal information is being used, collected, or shared in our digital society. Whether it be […]

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Week 2 – Mobile Device Security

Week 1 – Password Security

Several staff and faculty have received an email that appears to be From Fr. Regan who recently transitioned from Loyola University Chicago to Fordham University.  Although the email appears legitmate, the email address is misspelled. Rather than the correct spelling “Jesuit” it is spelled “jesiut”.  The email appears as below. Although there is no malicious […]