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For a physician assistant program, accreditation is never finished. To stay accredited, programs must continuously show that their curriculum meets a detailed set of national standards, tying course syllabi, learning outcomes and assessments to specific requirements. That evidence gathering is largely manual today and can easily take hundreds of hours per accreditation cycle. 

Returning to school after time away is a big step, and technology can feel like the steepest part of the climb. The good news is that you’re not the only one with technology questions. We asked the folks who support returning and adult students what trips people up the most, and we’ve pulled the answers together here. 

The Record reports the BYOD ransomware gang added Michigan State University to its leak site, claiming it stole personal information on 1.3 million current and former students. MSU said the claims relate to an early October incident that forced password resets for all NetID accounts.

Microsoft released urgent security updates on Oct. 25 for two vulnerabilities affecting .NET, PowerShell, and Visual Studio. These updates are part of a special security advisory that Microsoft released outside of its normal monthly cycle of security bulletins. Pitt Digital recommends installing these updates on all affected systems as soon as possible.What Microsoft Fixed

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One of the individuals arrested was allegedly linked to more than 300 fraudulent student accounts and received more than $1 million over five years.

Pitt Digital’s Cloud Innovation Center, a collaboration with AWS, is entering its second year with an expanded scope that now spans more disciplines and is open to projects from outside the University. The CIC gives students funding, training, and AWS AI tools to build solutions to problems brought by Pitt faculty and staff, such as a prototype that automates the matching of health care records across hospital systems, and releases the results as free, open-source tools. The Pitt-AWS CIC is one of three supported by Amazon Web Services and the only one on the East Coast.

If cybersecurity headlines feel like they’re arriving faster than ever, you’re not imagining it. Cybersecurity teams around the world are racing to keep up with new vulnerabilities, rushed software fixes, and data breaches that seem to make the news every week.

Every online course at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Excellence in Digital Education (Pitt EDGE) goes through a quality review before it launches. The review checks against the Online Learning Consortium's (OLC) Quality Scorecard, a widely adopted framework covering 50 objectives across course design, content, structure and engagement. Things like: Is there a clear grading policy? Is the course free of broken links? Are learning objectives measurable, or just vague?

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Phishing attacks are increasingly using legitimate calendar invites to bypass security filters, according to researchers at Netcraft. Attackers send ICS calendar invite files that plant phishing lures directly on users’ calendars, often under the guise of work-related meetings.

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PHP’s developers will release a patch Wednesday for two vulnerabilities rated 9.2 on the CVSSv4.0 scale that risk unauthenticated remote code execution. CERT-EU warned organizations unable to apply the fixes to prepare to take PHP-based websites offline temporarily.

Text scams used to be easier to spot. If a random number texted you saying you won a prize you never entered, you could just block, delete, and move on with your life. Today’s smishing attempts are more targeted, more common, and much less obvious. Here’s what you need to know to avoid getting smished.

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BoA CEO Brian Moynihan said the bank brought in 1,000 contractors to help remediate vulnerabilities uncovered by Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, spending over $200 million on fixes. The contractors, added in Q2 to the bank’s 3,000-person technical staff, remain on hand as patching continues.