Category Archives: Faculty/Staff

Anything relating to faculty and staff machines

Essentials, Faculty/Staff, Make Tech Easier, More, Students

Staying Safe online

04/12/2019 Tom Rule

There is an online security researcher named Krebs that published 3 basic rules for online safety. These still make a lot of sense:

If you didn’t go looking for it, don’t install it!
If you installed it, UPDATE it!
If you no longer need it, REMOVE it!

The original article is at https://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/05/krebss-3-basic-rules-for-online-safety/

Faculty/Staff, More, Network, Students, Uncategorized

Why would someone hack my old PC?

04/10/2019 Tom Rule

There is potentially a lot of useful / sellable info on that old PC that you haven’t used in a while.

What your old hacked PC can be used for by the “bad guys”

This is from https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/10/the-scrap-value-of-a-hacked-pc-revisited/

There’s a lot of bad actors online, but there are indeed things you can do to be safer. Watch the tech site for more articles, coming soon.

Faculty, Faculty/Staff, iPads, More, Student, Students, Websites

Read books on your iPad [for fun, not for class]

09/24/2018 Tom Rule

If you’d like to “check out” ebooks on your iPad, there are TWO ways:
The MackinVia app already on your iPad. CLICK HERE for instructions on setting yours up. CLICK HERE for an article on using MackinVia for research.

RBDigital is available in the App Portal. It allows you to check out up to three digital items using your Middle Georgia Regional Library account. If you have a PINES card, you can check out material from the local library!

CLICK HERE for instructions. CLICK HERE to go to the library’s RBDigital website.

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