Anatomy of a Phish: August 2024 Phishing Simulation

Test Inspiration: The phishing email for this test was crafted to resemble an official communication from Delta Airlines, leveraging the recent disruptions caused by the CrowdStrike outage on July 19, which impacted Delta’s flight operations. Delta had publicly announced efforts to make things right for affected customers, including offering travel waivers and vouchers. Phishing Email […]

IT Policy Updates Posted on GHC Policy Manual

The following policy revisions were approved by President’s Cabinet and posted on the GHC Policy Manual: IT Acceptable Use policy IT Acceptable Use standard IT BYOD policy IT BYOD standard IT Encryption policy   While the Acceptable Use and BYOD only received minor grammatical updates and clarifications, the Encryption policy has been completely rewritten to […]

What is “Contract Cheating”?

Contract cheating refers to the practice where students outsource their assessments to third parties, such that the assignments or exams they submit are not their own work. The growth of online college degrees has created more opportunities for American students to outsource their schoolwork, resulting in a booming billion-dollar cheating industry centered in the East […]

Anatomy of a Phish: May 2024 Phishing Simulation

Test Inspiration: In early 2023, Cloudflare detected and blocked a phishing campaign leveraging the Microsoft brand in an attempt to harvest credentials through a legitimate — but compromised — site. Phishing Email Context: The phishing email designed for this test mimicked an official Microsoft password expiration notification. It used a personalization messaging such as the […]

IT System Security Updates This Friday

The Division of Information Technology will be installing routine security updates to our servers and network infrastructure from 1:00am until 7:00am on Friday, March 29th. Systems that cannot be safely updated through this automated process will be manually updated by IT personnel during staff hours. Users working on documents stored on the “P-Drive” should ensure they save their work and close […]