The first unsolicited commercial e-mail, now called junk mail or spam, can be traced back to 1978 when a young engineer at DEC, Gary Thuerk, sent a mass-mail announcement about their new DECSystem20 computer to six hundred ARPAnet users. Little did he know then that, by 2010, over 95% of all messages sent over the Internet would be spam. [...]
Tag Archives: Information Security
Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) – Home Use
As part of the Symantec Antivirus upgrade, Information Services has negotiated home use rights to Symantec Antivirus protection for Northeastern Faculty and Staff personal computers. Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) is available through “Software Downloads” on the “Services and Links” tab on myNEU. In addition to continually updating your virus definitions, the Symantec Endpoint Protection offers protection against security threats such [...]
Posted in 2010 October IS Newsletter
Also tagged Antivirus, Software, Working from Home
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Using the Remote Access Service
Use the Remote Access Service (VPN) to Connect to and Use NU Computer Resources We featured this service in an earlier newsletter article, but it’s so useful we want to make sure you know about it. More and more people are working remotely, but they need access to on-campus resources. This is where the VPN comes into play. A [...]
Quarterly Security Reminder – July 2010
The Office of Information Technology Security recently sent their quarterly information security reminder to the University community. The security reminder is part of a series about individual and institutional responsibilities around protecting sensitive information, and the requirement to read and comply with relevant University policies on use of information and information systems. The full version of the [...]
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