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This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 10/02/2025

Posted on Oct 02, 2025
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This news brief reminds you of a non-threat and explains the threat of Zoom bombing. It also reminds you about the quickly approaching end of support date for Windows 10, and explains training issues for some employees.

Current Non-Threats / Current Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / Email / feature / Risk / security awareness training / Updates / Zoom

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 09/23/2025

Posted on Sep 23, 2025
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This news brief tells you about a current non-threat and reminds you about Windows 10 end-of-support, as well as the required use of the VPN.

Current Non-Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / Email / feature / Updates / VPN

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 09/11/2025

Posted on Sep 11, 2025
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This news brief tells you about a current non-threat and reminds you about the Windows 10 end-of-support.

Current Non-Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / Email / feature / Updates

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 08/27/2025

Posted on Aug 27, 2025
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This news brief tells you about a current threat. It also reminds you about Windows 10 end of support and VPN being required.

Current Threats / Policies and Procedures / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / feature / Risk / Scam / Updates / VPN

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 08/13/2025

Posted on Aug 13, 2025
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This news brief tells about this year’s required compliance training. It also reminds you reboot your computers.

Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / feature / Reboots / security awareness training

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 07/31/2025

Posted on Jul 31, 2025
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This news brief tells you about the recurring phishing threats aimed at students this time of year. It also reminds departments and usingt about officially terminating employees, as well as policy for UT-provided email accounts.

Current Threats / Policies and Procedures / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / Email / feature / Phishing / Scam

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 07/22/2025

Posted on Jul 22, 2025
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This news brief tells you about how to safely register for conferences and book hotels. It also gives you a quick explanation of the recent SharePoint exploit.

Current Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / Email / feature / Scam

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 07/09/2025

Posted on Jul 09, 2025
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This news brief tells you about some critical security patches for Microsoft products and informs you about an upcoing requirment.

Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / feature / New Information

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 07/02/2025

Posted on Jul 02, 2025
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This news brief shares information about current potential global threats and tells you about an important update you need.

Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / feature / Global Cybersecurity News / Scam / Updates

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 06/25/2025

Posted on Jun 25, 2025
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This news brief tells you about a current non-threat and reminds you why these newsletters are so important.

Ask Your CISO / Current Non-Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / Email / feature

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Sandy Lindsey
Chief Information Security Officer
Information Technology Services
The University of Tennessee
Institute of Agriculture

 

 

G061​ McCord Hall
2640 Morgan Circle Drive
Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996
Phone: (865) 974-7292; (865) 806-5224
sandy@tennessee.edu

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