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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">1. Join MIT’s Security SIG</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">2. Microsoft Releases Security Advisory on Word Vulnerability</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">3. Event: Laptop Tagging and Registration, 4/2/14</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">4. Reminder: Windows XP Support Ends<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">1. Join MIT’s Security SIG</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Are you responsible for managing the security of servers and/or desktop computers?
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Are you a supervisor for anyone responsible for managing servers and/or desktop computers?
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Do you train, communicate with, or provide technical assistance to users about security issues, software, and settings?
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Are you simply interested in keeping computers and data safe?
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">If you answered yes to any of these questions, Security SIG (Special Interest Group) may be for you.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Security SIG is a voluntary group of MIT faculty, staff and students dedicated to the free exchange of IT Security information, resources, ideas and tools via on-going discussions through email. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/6VAYCQ">Find out how to join here</a>.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Microsoft is notifying its customers via a
<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/security/advisory/2953095">Security Advisory</a> about a vulnerability in Microsoft Word that could allow remote code execution. The vulnerability is affecting all supported versions of Microsoft Word, although limited,
targeted attacks are currently directed at Word 2010.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/security/advisory/2953095">Read the full Microsoft Security Advisory here</a>.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/zero-day-vulnerability-in-microsoft-word-under-active-attack/">Read the story in the news</a>.</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., April 2, 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;">Just another reminder that after April 8, 2014,
<span style="text-decoration: underline">a week from today</span>, Microsoft will no longer supply security patches for machines running Windows XP.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">IS&T recommends that users of Windows XP upgrade to Windows 7 or 8.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=152585503">Read the details here</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></div>
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