Weekly Tech Update: June 9, 2025
Welcome to the weekly newsletter dedicated to everything IT! Newsy, fun, informational—get your quick digest of tech content and then go about your day. Check for updates here every Monday.
Security Awareness
DMARC email security protocol to change in July
As you are probably aware, for the past year plus, IT Services has been using a compliance rule in Google that tags the subject line of incoming emails sent from a MiamiOH.edu email address that fa...
ShredFest 2025 Introduced Additional Services
Rain couldn't keep IT Services and General Counsel from shredding!
ShredFest 2025 Taking Place on Monday and Tuesday
Next week, ShredFest and ShareFest are combining forces to help the Miami and Oxford communities. ShredFest is your opportunity to bring confidential office and personal documents for secure, on-si...
Top 5 tech reminders for the start of summer
As we wind down the spring semester (where did the time go?) and prepare for the summer session, we know that faculty and staff are excited to exchange chilly breezes for warmer sunshine –...
Techsplaining 101: Windows 10 EOL
Here’s everything you need to know about the sunsetting of Windows 10, how Miami is tackling our managed machines, and our recommendations for your personal devices.
Planned change: Duo Mobile passcodes will now be more secure
Duo Mobile manually generated codes will now operate with a 30-second time limit.
Notice: Email phishing messages urge users to send password, Duo code to bad actors
A new phishing email urges recipients to log in to a special system to verify their Microsoft accounts.
It has become a non-stop battle between scammers and security folks. Both working to get the upper hand over the other. The trouble with a lot of email and text phishing messages is that they can l...
April Security Awareness Topics
Oracle Password Update and ShredFest Reminder
Introducing: The Student-Run Security Operations Center
The student-run SOC will be a dedicated space for student employees to monitor and respond to cybersecurity threats and incidents.
Urgent information about some Miami accounts
Technicians are investigating an issue in the Miami identity system -- but there is a workaround!
Security Awareness: The Latest Scams of 2025
Today, we'll dive into the most recent ways scammers try and reach out to you so you know what to look out for and how to avoid getting phished.
Email phishing message asking for student research assistants
The information security team has received numerous reports about a new (old!) scam email trying to recruit student research assistants. There are several, similar versions of the message being sen...
The dates have been finalized for ShredFest 2025, so make sure you have them in your calendar. ShredFest is your opportunity to bring confidential office and personal documents for secure, on-site ...
Introducing: The Fates (a new IT team!)
In Greek mythology, the Fates were in charge of the destiny of humans – who you are, what your life has in store. In a similar vein, our new team directs the fate of your Miami account!
Process change: Entity account creation now requires claim code
The IAM team is progressing on process changes for some of our account types.
Planned change: Miami Directory to be login-only
In service to maintaining a high level of security, we will be placing our web directory (MiamiOH.edu/directory) behind authentication on December 16, 2024.
Tis the Time of Year for Scams Galore
It's unfortunately the time of year for scammers to come out of the woodwork.
Victories for both Miami and Ohio in the second annual CyberMania competition
We have officially closed the annual CyberMania event!
IAM Update: Three new affiliations, Google calendars, and more
The IAM Program continues to work on a long list of tasks and activities that are improving not only how our systems talk to each other, but also how we use those systems to improve the level of se...
Trick or treat? More like click or delete: NCSAM update 2024
As you know, October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we are all working to become more knowledgeable and – dare we say – aware of common cybersecurity practices and...
NCSAM is starting: Join us for a Fireside Cyberchat
On October 17, join IT Services and the Information Security Office for a Fireside Cyberchat with Helen Patton.
Notice: Recent phishing scam appears to be from President Crawford
Please be aware that a new phishing email message is making the rounds that appears to be from University President Gregory Crawford.
August 2024 IAM Program Update
The IAM Program has spent the summer months busily working on the implementation of our new identity governance and administration (IGA) tool, RapidIdentity.
Internet vacationing: Summer cybersecurity safety tips
Let’s take a trip to the cyber-beach and see what we’ll need to bring…
Current Outage: CrowdStrike bug causes Windows devices to bluescreen
This is a timeline of the communications sent to our University partners and users as we worked through Friday to mitigate the impact of the outage caused by the CrowdStrike cybersecurity software.
Scam alert: Research assistants for Padma Patil
The information security team has received numerous reports of a scam concerning student research assistants for Padma Patil, associate vice president of institutional research.
Weekly Tech Update for July 15, 2024
Welcome to the weekly newsletter dedicated to everything IT! Newsy, fun, informational—get your quick digest of tech content and then go about your day. Check for updates here every Monday.
Recent phishing scams: Google Docs and QR codes
Please read carefully and remember: Stay vigilant!
