Phishing
If you get an email in your Lamar email account, that you are not sure if it is phishing, you should email it here.
What is "reportspam@lamar.edu"?
Software used to protect computers from malicious programs like virus and worms.
What is "anti-virus"?
This is how public Wi-Fi generally passes information, which is readable by other computers and users.
What is "clear text"?
This is the number of credit bureaus.
What is "3"?
A password at Lamar University should contain at least this many characters.
What is "10"?
What is an effective method that uses the mouse cursor to show the actual link, without clicking on the link, in an email or web page.
What is the "mouse hover"?
Your computer has a new file on the desktop that describes that all your files were encrypted and demands a ransom for their release. This is the best defense against losing information from such a ransomware.
What are "backups" or "offline backups"?
You should never access or transmit this type of information over public Wi-Fi.
What is "confidential or sensitive"?
This is the proper way to dispose of paper documents.
What is "shredding" / "cross cut shredding"?
How a link in an email can be disguised to take you to an unexpected web site.
What is "web spoofing or URL redirecting"?
This person is the best defense against phishing.
Who is the "individual person" / "user" / "end user" / "I" / "me" ?
You find a USB flash drive on the street, you take it back and plug it into your office/home computer. You risk spreading this into your network.
What is "virus"/"worm"/"malware" ?
You should use this setting in your home Wi-Fi router for best available performance and security.
What is "WPA2 with AES"?
This government website helps identity theft victims get started with recovery.
What is "www.identitytheft.gov"?
You can use this setting on your social media sites such as facebook or twitter to prevent people unknown to you from accessing your information.
What is "privacy"?
An email attack that is targeted just to you or your department by incorporating your personal information such as your name, title, address in an attempt to legitimize the email.
What is "spear phishing"?
You think your computer has a virus because it's really slow. You scan your computer with an anti-virus which finds and removes many viruses. Everything is fine until you reboot your computer and its back to being slow and the virus is back. Your computer is likely infected with this.
What is a "root kit"?
Lamar offers this service to securely connect to campus from an insecure wi-fi.
What is "remote access"/"VPN"?
What free tool is available to anyone and is free to place and remove. This stops all access to your credit report until it is removed.
What is a "credit freeze"?
The Lamar University cloud storage solution that is provided for faculty, staff, and students for non-confidential information.
What is "Microsoft One Drive"?
This is manipulation by tapping into powerful emotions such as authority, fear, urgency, and greed.
What is "social engineering"?
Most websites use this technique to prevent malicious actors/computer programs repeatedly submitting junk by verifying the submitter is human. This technique often involves reading and typing text from an image or identifying images with cars or other items in them. Name the technique.
What is a "CAPTCHA" "Re-CAPTCHA" ?
You should turn off this service on your router that allows generation of a random pin during setup.
What is "WPS"/"Wi-Fi protected setup"?
This extra layer of security protection to an online account that requires something you know (password), and something you have (a code sent to your phone).
What is "two factor authentication or LEA 2 step or SMS code verification"?
Changing this account type on your computer account from "administrator" prevents malware and viruses from installing on your computer to better protect your computers.
What is "standard account or standard user"?