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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">1. Event: Laptop Tagging and Registration, 3/5/14</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">This Wednesday, there is an opportunity to register and tag your laptop.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Where: <b>Lobby of Building 10</b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">When: <b>Wed., March 5, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm</b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Cost: $10 cash (no cards) or MIT Cash Object</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Just as you might register a bike with the police, you can also register your laptop. Information Systems & Technology partners with MIT Police to provide STOP (Security Tracking of Office Property) tags for
laptops. The tag is affixed to the device, has a unique number, and is registered with a world-wide database.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Sgt. Cheryl Vossmer of the MIT Police says that although a STOP tag is not software that can track a device via GPS or other means, it has been very effective at providing a way for lost or stolen laptops to
be returned to their rightful owners.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span style="color: #000000">Read
<a href="https://www.stoptheft.com/">laptop recovery stories here</a>.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/display/istcontrib/MIT+Police+Laptop+Tagging+and+Registration">Learn more about laptop registration at
MIT</a></span><span style="color: #000000">.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Whether for work, school or personal use, you may be using Google’s products in one form or another, including an Android device, Gmail, Chrome, Google Docs or other applications. Google is committed to keeping
the web safe for everyone and understands that it is a shared responsibility. They have put together a website to help you learn what you can do to protect yourself and your family online.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Topics include securing your password, managing your Google account, checking settings, and more to help you to
<a href="http://www.google.com/safetycenter/everyone/start/">stay secure and private when online</a>. They also show
<a href="http://www.google.com/safetycenter/everyone/cybercrime/">ways to keep the bad guys out</a> of your stuff.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">There is a wealth of information included in the
<a href="http://www.google.com/safetycenter/">Google Safety Center</a>, so it’s well worth while checking out.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Last week Apple issued an update for OS X Mavericks (<a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1726">Security Update 2014-001</a>) that addresses a critical SSL flaw. The same issue was fixed earlier in iOS. Users
are urged to update their systems as soon as possible as exploit code has already been released. The newest version of OS X is now 10.9.2. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">The update fixes 32 additional issues, including six in the QuickTime media player and four that could be exploited to circumvent the application sandbox. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">The company issued security updates for OS X Lion 10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5, and OS X Lion Server 10.7.5, although none of them are reportedly vulnerable to the SSL flaw. Apple and IS&T at MIT are no
longer supporting Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6).</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Apple issued updates for Safari, bringing the browser's latest versions to 6.1.2 and 7.0.2. According to Apple, the patch addresses "multiple memory corruption issues" in the WebKit software on which Safari
is based, and which an attacker could exploit by tricking a user into visiting a malicious website.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">A full listing of the recent security updates can be found at
<a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222">support.apple.com</a>. </div>
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Monique Buchanan<br>
IT Security Communications Consultant<br>
Information Systems & Technology (IS&T)<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">"Distrust and caution are the parents of security" - Benjamin Franklin</span>
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