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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial">1. Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Service Pack 1</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial">1. Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Service Pack 1</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial">Microsoft has released Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and, as of February 22, is available for download from Microsoft. It will be released via the Windows Update service at an as yet non-specified date.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial">IS&T strongly recommends Windows users at MIT to <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FC2218">WAIT</font> to install the service pack until it becomes available via the MIT Windows Automatic Update Service (WAUS) at <http://ist.mit.edu/services/os/windows/updates>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial">If you are not using WAUS, IS&T recommends subscribing to it to prevent your machine from getting SP1 before support becomes available. IT staff in departments, labs and centers (DLCs) should test SP1 in their own environments to ensure it is compatible with their supported applications and services. IS&T will work with the DLCs to help find solutions if there are any problems.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">If you do intend to download the service pack prior to support becoming available, it is a good idea to back up your data before installing. Service packs have been known to crash systems for one reason or another.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">For help or to share your findings with the Software Release Team, send mail to windows7-release@mit.edu.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Computers in Internet cafes, public libraries and other public places constitute a great risk to security. As a news article about a library in the UK illustrates (see link below), it is fairly easy to add devices containing keystroke loggers to public computers. These devices can capture any kind of sensitive information you type into the keyboard, such as the log on information for your online accounts, applications for items such as a passport or driver's license that contain personal information, and bank or credit card information when making online purchases. Because the keystroke logging devices can capture information despite a website's encryption feature, they can do quite a bit of damage, leading to identity theft and fraud.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">What can you do about staying safe when using unsure public computers? </p>
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Be aware of what is plugged into the computer's ports and connected to the computer's wires. Are the ports visible? If a USB device is plugged in, don't use the computer. Also look for anything added between the keyboard's chord and the port.</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">If the ports or wires are not visible and you need to use a public computer, don't use it for going into any personal accounts, such as Facebook, your bank, or your email.</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">If you temporarily don't have access to your own computer and need to use an unsure public computer for accessing a personal account, change your password using a private computer within a day of last logging into the account. </li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Do not use an unsure public computer to enter your debit or credit card information into online forms.</li>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Read the story in the news:</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica"><http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Hardware-keyloggers-found-in-public-libraries-1190097.html></p>
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