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New email protection service to be implemented Feb. 24

By Casey Hanson, Information Technology Services PULLMAN, Wash. – Information Technology Services (ITS) will implement a new email protection service provided by ProofPoint on Tuesday, Feb. 24. ProofPoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) will check email messages for malicious URLs and/or attachments as they come into the Washington State University central email system.

Data security breaches at other universities

Attrition.org, a computer security company/website, maintains a current list of information on security/data breaches at http://attrition.org/dataloss. This list looks like a who’s who of U.S. businesses and organizations. A few universities on this list in the last five months are:* Wichita State University, Aug. 1, credit card and other information, over 2,000 people* Cal Poly, […]