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Jolabokaflod (Christmas Book flood)
In Iceland, books are exchanged as Christmas Eve presents, then you spend the rest of the night in bed reading them and eating chocolate. The tradition is part of a season called Jolabokaflod, or ‘The Christmas Book Flood’, because Iceland, which publishes more books per capita than any other country, sells most of its books […]
New phishing attack
Many University staff and students have this morning, reported receiving a phishing email with subject line “Email Validation: University of STIRLING”. This is a screenshot of the email – below we have listed below the characteristics that can help identify it as a scam. Issues from the top down From field – on this occasion […]
New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in October #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during October. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Towards a better understanding of the value of physical fitness testing within the identification and development of youth soccer players. By James Dugdale http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30250 An Ethnographic Exploration of Relationships […]
Information Security Alert: new phishing threat detected
This morning we have received several reports of a phishing email purporting to be from our Chancellor Jack McConnell. Thanks to those who reported the issue, we were able to act quickly and block the offending email, removing it from a further 413 mailboxes. See below how this was identified as a phishing email. Beware […]
Emerging technology
The second topic for Cyber Security month is Emerging technologies. Technology is developing fast and it is very important to make sure that you keep yourself and your new tech gadgets up to date and devices secure. It is crucial to question the security and privacy settings for any new purchases. The 5 top-selling emerging […]
10 steps to Cyber success
Information Services have created a 10 step guide to be a cyber success. This is part of our bigger Stirling Cybersecurity Be aware it could happen to you. You have info that scammers want, whether it’s your bank or University password Set a strong password. One that only you know and that you use only for […]
Cyber Hygiene checklist
There are some simple things you can do to up your cyber hygiene. Password changes – The University has recently changed the complexity requirements for your University password. There is now a minimum requirement of 12 Characters. Each password will have to have at least one of the following:1. Upper case letter2. Lower case letter3. […]
OneDrive: preferred file storage for students
Over the next few months, Information Services is going to be heavily promoting Office 365 and its many exciting technologies to our staff and students. Students already have full access to the Office 365 suite via your student email accounts – just have a look in the App Launcher (top left in your email) to […]
Common cyber hygiene problems
Today for European Cybersecurity month we are covering cyber hygiene. Below are some common problems that you can avoid if you maintain good cyber hygiene. Loss of data: hard drives and online cloud storage that isn’t backed up or maintained is vulnerable to hacking, corruption and other problems that could result in the loss of […]