For members of the campus community, a trip to a foreign country presents unique data security challenges. The nature of international travel requires you to use your device (laptop, tablet or smartphone) in various unfamiliar places that may expose your data and device to malicious people and software.
"Top 10" List of Secure Computing Tips Tip #1 - You are a target to hackers
Don't ever say, "It won't happen to me." We are all at risk and the stakes are high - both for your personal and financial well-being and for the university's standing and reputation.
This fake email termination notification was received by many users on their personal cell phone numbers via text message.
What makes this a phishing message?
This targeted phishing scam is pretending to be a UC Berkeley technician and uses urgency and fear to cause the recipients to act, threatening loss of service (email).
Tips if Something Seems Off:
UC Berkeley Help Desks will NEVER initiate contact directly via test to personal cell phone numbers
No technician will ever ask you to send them a password, DUO push code or other secret account information...
Data is one of UC Berkeley’s most critical assets. The complexity and volume of the data we are taking in is growing while at the same time regulatory requirements are becoming more stringent. These factors make correctly managing data vital for ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, and availability remain intact.
The data management lifecycle:
Proper handling of data throughout its lifecycle is critical to optimizing its utility, minimizing the potential for errors, and protecting it from breaches. No...
Every year, students at UC Berkeley are scammed out of thousands of dollars via fake employment offers. Beware of unsolicited emails, phone calls, texts or even facebook messages offering internship or employment opportunities. If you receive a job offer, don’t trust it without verifying – contact the person offering the job via their contact info in the campus directory or via a berkeley.edu departmental website....
This targeted phishing scam impersonates the UC Berkeley faculty member or campus lab manager.
This email is sent to the parents of a student working in a campus lab. It invents a phony 'accident' that damaged an expensive piece of lab equipment and asks the parents of the lab member to reimburse the lab for part of the cost of replacement.
This targeted phishing scam uses urgency and fear to cause the recipients to act, extorting money from a phony accident.
Sync service backups can be set up through Google Drive or Box and both encrypt the data in transit and at rest. However, these services are only suitable for P2 and P3 data - not P4, review what data can be stored in my UC Berkeley Google accounts (bMail,...
A backup is a second copy (or more) of your digital files and it can protect you from data loss. You can access this backup in the event your device or data become inaccessible, destroyed, or damaged. Data loss can occur in many ways: a computer or hardware crash, a lost or stolen device, data corruption, or malware that encrypts it and holds it for ransom.
Two types of backup are sync services and traditional backups:Sync (or cloud) services backup individual files and do not include...
This targeted phishing scam impersonates the UC Berkeley Duo Admin to create fear to cause the recipients to act, scanning the QR code which leads to a malicious link.
This targeted phishing scam uses urgency and fear to cause the recipients to act, exposing their personal information.
Tips if Something Seems Off: Double-check the email address before responding. Individual email users (even accounts made to look like berkeley.edu accounts) will never ask for this action. If the link is followed, the campus will NEVER ask for credentials to be...
"Top 10" List of Secure Computing Tips Tip #1 - You are a target to hackers 