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A phishing tip to keep in mind🎣: verify unexpected bank emails or texts by contacting your bank directly (avoid clicking links in the message). Watch for poor spelling, urgent language, and don't take the bait!⚠️

Reminder that the 90-day retention policy for Teams Chat messages goes into effect Tuesday August 19th! ⏰🗓❗️

Check out the bulletin post from University of Waterloo below for more details and archive options.
https://uwaterloo.ca/daily-bulletin/2025-08-14 -teams-chat-retention-changes

Thursday, August 14, 2025 | Daily Bulletin | University of Waterloo The Daily Bulletin, Thursday, August 14, 2025.

Check out this article to see how a UK based company went out of business due to a weak password, https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gx28815wo

Make sure your passwords follow the university's recommendations to keep your data safe! 🖥🔒
https://uwaterloo.ca/cyber-awareness/password-best-practices-and-guidelines

Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company Transport company KNP forced to shut down after international hacker gangs target thousands of UK businesses.

Wishing you a wonderful summer weekend from the Health Computing Office! 🏖🌞🌻

Having issues saving files, uploading documents, or receiving new emails? You might be over your storage quota!

The new storage limits took effect on June 23. If you are still over your quota, check out this article from Health Computing for tips on how to clean up your files.

https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/x/twXeZAo

uwaterloo.atlassian.net

Received a text asking you to reset your password? Think twice before following through.

If you didn't request a password reset through the mentioned service then it is likely a phishing attempt. Do not click any links or call any numbers in the text and go directly to the official page for the service to investigate.

Check out this article for more tips to stay safe from this kind of attack.

https://blog.knowbe4.com/fake-mfa-reset-warning-message

With the new M365 storage limits taking effect on June 23, now is a good time to start cleaning up your files 🗂.
Check out this article from Health Computing for some tips and tricks to help you along.

https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/x/twXeZAo

Chrome users beware! ⚠️
Many malicious extensions have been found on the Chrome Web Store recently, check out the article below to learn more.

https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/100-fake-chrome-extensions-found.html

When looking for extensions be sure you are getting them from official, trusted sources, and not just clicking on the first one that comes up.

Stay safe!

100+ Fake Chrome Extensions Found Hijacking Sessions, Stealing Credentials, Injecting Ads Over 100 malicious Chrome extensions since Feb 2024 impersonated real tools to steal data and execute code.

Wishing everyone a Happy Weekend from the Health Computing Office!

Happy Monday! Health Computing hopes you've had a great start to Spring 2025 and wishes you a wonderful rest of term. 🐦🌸🌷

Hey Warriors! Check out 5 Reasons Why You Should Use a Password Manager: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/5-reasons-why-you-should-use-a-password-manager/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=e064_04.14.25_ICP_PMM&utm_term=microsoft-active-weekly

Hey Warriors,

Curious about how long you've got left with Microsoft Office Support? Check out this article to learn about the specific support end-dates for your licenses:

Microsoft Office support end dates checklist Checklist when your version of Microsoft Office will stop getting security bug and software bug fixes, what Microsoft calls the "end of support".This is i