Duke's IT Security offers tips after Twitter account for Duke Arts is compromised
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June 22, 2016
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February 13, 2017Last November, Duke professor Gary Gereffi returned from a research trip to Kazakhstan and was informed by his IT department that his computer had been hacked. Days earlier, a colleague at Harvard University sent Gereffi an email with an attachment to a scholarly paper. Unbeknownst to both professors, malware inflected the attachment, and as soon as Gereffi opened the document, hackers could peer into Gereffi’s computer and steal his data.
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April 3, 2017LastPass has posted a detailed update on the issues identified this week with its Firefox and Chrome plugins.