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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">1. NCSAM at MIT Wrapped Up</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">2. Apple Issues iCloud Security Advisory</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">3. Program in Applied Cyber Security at MIT</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">4. Malicious Ebola-Themed Emails</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">1. NCSAM at MIT Wrapped Up</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">NCSAM 2014 is officially over. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Thank you to all who participated in the events hosted by MIT, including the desk in the Student Center, the talk by Nathan Freitas on Tor going mobile, and the Shred IT effort in the Stata Center lobby. Special
thanks to the IS&T Site Team, DITR, Facilities, Cintas Document Management, and The Tor Project for their efforts and time.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">How did we do?</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">We had about 150 visitors to the student desk.
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">The talk on Tor was attended by 50 people.
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">At the shredding event we collected nine large bins of paper and at least 2 full pallets of hard drives and floppy disks.
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Several people have asked when we will repeat the shredding event. It is possible this may become an annual or bi-annual event; we will be sure to let the community know when the next one is happening.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Due to busy schedules, we are also considering video-taping the security talks, which are schedule to happen every two months. A schedule of upcoming talks will be shared when it becomes available.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://securityfyi.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/ncsam-at-mit-wrapped-up/">Photos of the Tor talk and the shredding event are posted online</a>.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Last week Apple issued a security warning about attacks attempting to steal information from iCloud users with fraudulent certificates. An Apple support page warns users to heed invalid certificate warnings while
visiting iCloud, saying they should never enter login information into websites that present certificate warnings.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6550">Verify that your browser is securely connected to iCloud.com</a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Have you ever considered taking advantage of the amazing educational opportunities at MIT?</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">MIT Professional Education is organized under the School of Engineering, and provides continuing education courses and lifelong learning opportunities for science and engineering professionals at all levels. MIT
faculty teach all Professional Education offerings.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">I was poking around their site last week and wouldn’t you know it:
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/professional/short-programs/courses/applied_cyber_security.html">
a course in Applied Cyber Security is being offered in 2015</a>. According the course description, “experts from academia, the military, and industry share their knowledge to give participants the principles, the state of the practice, and strategies for the
future.”</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/professional/short-programs/courses/applied_cyber_security.html">Learn more</a>.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Fake emails that purport to be from the World Health Organization are inviting people to download an attachment or click a link for more information about the Ebola virus.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">Last week US-CERT, a division of the Department of Homeland Security,
<a href="https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2014/10/16/Ebola-Phishing-Scams-and-Malware-Campaigns">
issued an advisory</a> warning users about spam campaigns that use the Ebola virus to bait users into inadvertently downloading malware. Once the malware program is on the victim’s machine, it can grab shots off the webcam, take control of the machine remotely,
or steal passwords.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/malicious-ebola-themed-emails-are-on-the-rise/">Read the full story online</a>.</div>
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