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THINK BEFORE YOU CLICK

It's almost tax season and together with the occasional legitimate SARS email, emails posing as official SARS correspondence are sneaking into sun mailboxes. Staff and students fall prey to phishing scams on a daily basis, compromising accounts and the entire university network.

The responsibility lies with you to be vigilant and think twice before clicking on links and divulging your username and password. Keep in mind that if your account is hacked, your network access will be blocked and your devices scanned. This will cause quite a bit of inconvenience – something we want to avoid.

Are you unsure how to to recognise a phishing email and need advice? Let us know at bitsbytes@sun.ac.za

  
   
 
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BE CYBER SAFE
+ Latest phishing emails
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+ How to look for proof of a spoof
+ Cybersecurity firm finds way to alter WhatsApp messages
+ Think you can outsmart internet scammers? Take this quiz to find out.
+ Do you have a WiFi network at home? Here is how to make sure it's secure

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+ The untold story of NotPetya, the most devastating cyberattack in history
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REDCAP LAUNCHED FOR RESEARCHERS

SU Research Support Services are pleased to announce the launch of Stellenbosch University’s Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) service.

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HAVE YOUR SAY

With reference to our GDPR article we received the following comments:

"Just a short feedback on how useful the (GDPR: Protecting your data) article. I am in research and I found that article very useful and informative not only for me as an individual but for our team. " –- Busiswa Fanqa

"Our team really appreciated the GDPR article, excellent summary. It’s really relevant in our environment here, also looking forward to our unit participating in the data security course. I also enjoyed the previous article about the Whatsapp tips you had. " - Filicity Lindani

"The GDP article was very interesting, it also follows in the line of the research work we are currently doing, ensuring that data is protected. It is actually nice to see that all the departments will be following these strict guidelines to protect staff and clients information. "– Thandi Hamana, Research Facilitator, KID CRU

If you have an opinion on any articles or tech news, email us at bitsbytes@sun.ac.za.
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