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Welcome to the official IT Security Website of Stephen F. Austin State University. This site tries to aggregate IT security information from a variety of sources. We hope you find everything you are looking for, but if not, contact us at ITSECURITY@SFASU.EDU.
We welcome your comments.
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Website of the Month:
www.data.gov/education
The new Data.gov education community is a central place to find education data and resources including high-value data sets, data visualization tools, resources for the classroom, and more. The data has been gathered from various agencies to provide detailed information on the state of education at all levels.
Connectsafely.com
ConnectSafely is for parents, teens, educators, advocates - everyone engaged in and interested in the impact of the social Web. The user-driven, all-media, multi-platform, fixed and mobile social Web is a big part of young people's lives, and this is the central space - linked to from social networks across the Web - for learning about safe, civil use of Web 2.0 together. Our forum is also designed to give teens and parents a voice in the public discussion about youth online safety begun back in the '90s.
ConnectSafely also has all kinds of social-media safety tips <http://www.connectsafely.com/safety-tips.html> for teens and parents, the latest youth-tech news <http://www.connectsafely.com/Table/NetFamilyNews/> , and many other resources.
ConnectSafely.org is a project of Tech Parenting Group, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Palo Alto, Calif., and Salt Lake City, Utah. The forum is co-directed by Larry Magid of SafeKids.com and Anne Collier of NetFamilyNews.org, co-authors of MySpace Unraveled: What It Is and How to Use It Safely. (Peachpit Press, Berkeley, Calif., July 2006).
Ownyourspace.net
Downloadable eBook for every teen and an essential resource for every parent and teacher. Especially though, this is a book for the computer savvy, keyboard-comfy teens who use the Net every day and want to know how to secure their systems, preserve their Net lifestyles, and protect their data.
This book provides important details to keep those teens, their privacy, their identities, and their reputations safe in cyberspace.
StaySafeOnline.org
National Cyber Security Alliance mission is to educate and therefore empower a digital society to use the Internet safely and securely at home, work, and school, protecting the technology individuals' use, the networks they connect to, and our shared digital assets.
Symantec Risks & Threats Alerts
Risks
- ProtectOn: Type: Misleading Application.
- DefenseVirus: Type: Misleading Application.
- DownVision: Type: Potentially Unwanted App.
- Android.Steek: Type: Potentially Unwanted App.
- Android.Kidlogger: Type: Spyware.
Threats
- Backdoor.Sykipot!gen3: Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
- Backdoor.Breut: Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
- Infostealer.Shiz!gen: Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Worm.
- Trojan.Activehijack: Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
- Backdoor.Cycbot!gen10: Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
Campus Cyber-Security Alerts and Bulletins
On February 7, 2012, the MS-ISAC Cyber Alert Level was evaluated and is remaining at Blue (Guarded) due to vulnerabilities in Mozilla and Apple products. On February 1, 2012, the MS-ISAC issued an advisory for multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey applications. On February 2, 2012, the MS-ISAC issued an advisory for multiple vulnerabilities in Apple Mac OS X. Organizations and users are advised to update and apply all appropriate vendor security patches to vulnerable systems, continue to update their antivirus signatures daily and to review their mitigation strategies to defend against attacks on networks and web applications. Organizations should also perform web application and network vulnerability assessment on their Internet facing system to identify and fix any vulnerabilities that may exist. Another line of defense includes user awareness training regarding the threats posed by attachments and hypertext links contained in emails, especially from untrusted sources.
State and Federal Alerts and Bulletins
- FBI Cyber-Crime Center
- US-CERT Cyber-Security Alerts
- Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center Alerts
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