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This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 11/06/2025

Posted on Nov 06, 2025
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This news brief tells you about a current smishing threat. It also gives a couple of important reminders.

Current Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / feature / Important Reminders / Scam / security awareness training / Smishing

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 10/29/2025

Posted on Oct 29, 2025
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This news brief tells you about a trending threat, gives you important reminders, and gives tips for keeping your computer secure.

Current Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / Cybersecurity Awareness Month / Email / feature / Phishing / Scam / security awareness training / Security Tips

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 10/23/2025

Posted on Oct 23, 2025
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This news brief discusses a current threat using Outlook and Teams. It also goes over the acceptable way to report phishing and junk emails. It also gives reminders and tips for passwords and MFA.

Current Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / Cybersecurity Awareness Month / Email / feature / MFA / Passwords / Phishing / Reporting Phishing & Junk Emails / Scam / Teams

Reporting Phishing Attempts & Junk Email

Posted on Oct 23, 2025
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If you think an email you have received is a phishing attempt or is spam, it is important to report the email through the proper channels. This will help the…

Current Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Email / feature / Phishing / Scam / Spear Phishing

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 10/13/2025

Posted on Oct 13, 2025
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This news brief gives one final reminder of Windows 10 End-of-Support and gives tips on dealing with various scams/

Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / Cybersecurity Awareness Month / Email / feature / Phishing / Risk / Scam / Smishing / Spear Phishing / Updates / Vishing

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

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

 

 

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

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