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This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 03/25/2026

Posted on Mar 25, 2026
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This news brief tells you about a phishing attempt and a smishing attempt you should should be aware of.

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

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 03/13/2026

Posted on Mar 13, 2026
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This news brief tells you about an ongoing phishing email and talks about iPhone protection.

Ask Your CISO / Current Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Apple / Cybersecurity / Email / feature / Phishing / Risk / Scam

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 03/04/2026

Posted on Mar 04, 2026
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This news brief focuses on global threats.

Current Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / feature / Global Cybersecurity News / Risk

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 02/19/2026

Posted on Feb 19, 2026
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This news brief reminds you about fake text messages.

Current Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / feature / Risk / Scam / Smishing

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 02/04/2026

Posted on Feb 04, 2026
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This news brief includes a current non-threat as well as a current threat.

Current Non-Threats / Current Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / Email / feature / Phishing / Scam

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 01/22/2026

Posted on Jan 22, 2026
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This news brief informs you of a current non-threat and tells you about two current threats.

Current Non-Threats / Current Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / Email / feature / Phishing / Scam

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 01/15/2026

Posted on Jan 15, 2026
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This news brief tells about a non-threat, as well as gives important IT security reminders for 2026.

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

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 12/16/2025

Posted on Dec 16, 2025
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This news brief tells about more calendar phishing scams and reminds readers of the upcoming training deadline.

Current Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Services / Calendar Scam / Cybersecurity / feature / Phishing / Scam / security awareness training

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 11/25/2025

Posted on Nov 25, 2025
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This news brief is intended to help be aware of holiday scams. It also gives another reminder to do the annual security awareness training.

Current Threats / Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / Email / feature / Holiday Scams / Phishing / Risk / Scam / security awareness training

This Week’s Cybersecurity News, 11/20/2025

Posted on Nov 20, 2025
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Hello, everyone. Today I have several important updates and reminders for you. The first reminder about Office 2016 and Office 2019 is particularly important and I wanted to mention it…

Security Awareness Newsletters / Cybersecurity / Email / feature / Risk / security awareness training / Updates

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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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