Information Services and Technology News Archive

October 23, 2022 — 
If you receive what you suspect to be a phishing email, don’t panic. Avoid clicking on any links or attachment, and do not reply to the message or forward it to anyone. Instead, you can report the email to spam [at] umanitoba [dot] ca. 

October 14, 2022 — 
Cyber Security Awareness Month is an important time to reflect, as individuals and as an organization, on how we can protect ourselves and our loved ones online. Phishing is one of the most common cyber threats affecting Canadians. That’s why we want to help our university community learn more about phishing and how to protect ourselves and the people in our lives. 

October 7, 2022 — 
Use your computer or mobile device to find the hashtag and answer short quizzes to be eligible to win some great tech prizes. The hunt will run for three weeks from October 11 to October 31.

October 3, 2022 — 
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month (Cyber Month) in Canada, and the University of Manitoba is proud to be Get Cyber Safe champions working to help Canadians stay safe online. Cyber Month is an important time to reflect, as individuals and as an organization, on how we can protect ourselves and our loved ones online.

September 28, 2022 — 
Did you know that the university has three Wi-Fi options for our campus community?

September 6, 2022 — 
Staying up to date with new features in Microsoft 365 can be a challenge. There are several ways to learn about new features and changes in M365.

August 26, 2022 — 
Never approve an authentication request from Duo if you have not been attempting to log in to a UM service or resource. Authentication requests are sent by Duo Push notification, text message or phone call when you attempt to log in to a university service.

August 8, 2022 — 
Take the stress out of the first day of teaching and feel confident using your electronic classroom

July 11, 2022 — 
A phishing email uses a sense of urgency to direct the victim to visit a website designed to steal the victim's account credentials. Some phishing attacks are very straight forward, for example, "Update your password now!!!" can easily be detected because they typically are not written well (poor grammar and word choice). However, some attacks are sophisticated, look like they come from a trusted contact, are well written, and lead to a site that closely resembles the spoofed website.

July 5, 2022 — 
The Microsoft 365 Teams Approvals app enables you to easily create, manage, and share approvals directly from Teams. Start an approval flow in Teams from a chat or a channel conversation or create an approval request directly in the Approvals app.