A ghost student is created when a fraudster completes an online application to a college or university and then, once accepted, enrolls in classes. At that point, the fraudster behind the ghost student can use the fake identity to act like a regular student. He or she can access and abuse cloud storage provided by the […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Test Inspiration: As the April tax filing deadline in the US approached, March witnessed a significant uptick in phishing emails impersonating the IRS. This trend was not isolated to the US alone. The end of the global fiscal year saw similar impersonation attempts targeting HM Revenue and Customs in the UK, as well as other […]

GHC’s Spring 2024 Cybersecurity Awareness Training campaign is live on KnowBe4. All employees must visit https://training.knowbe4.com and complete the following training modules by April 30th: 2024 Common Threats 2024 Social Engineering Red Flags A small number of employees will also be required to complete a supplemental training module for phishing and email threats. This supplement will be assigned […]

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, February 23rd. 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 […]