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Even with strong, unique passwords for every account — and let’s face it, many people just rotate through a handful of passwords while using standard security questions — hackers manage to break into people’s accounts. That's where Multifactor Authentication (MFA) steps in as your digital sidekick, adding an extra layer of security to protect your accounts.

Pitt Chancellor Joan Gabel and Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian celebrated Pittsburgh’s role as an AI Tech Community by signing a ceremonial memorandum of understanding with NVIDIA at AI Horizons Pittsburgh on Oct. 14. The summit included keynote remarks from Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, discussing Pittsburgh’s global role in human-first AI innovation.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

PeopleSoft and PeopleSoft/HighPoint Campus Experience (CX) will be unavailable during scheduled maintenance to the Student Information System taking place overnight from Saturday, Oct. 19, at 11 p.m. until Sunday, Oct. 20, at 7 a.m. The maintenance will be performed by the vendor, Sierra-Cedar.

The final program rule for the CMMC Program was released for public inspection on federalregister.gov and is anticipated to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, Oct. 15.

The cybersecurity industry is now seeing significant security gaps because of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

TeamDynamix, which includes Pitt Information Technology’s Services Portal and Knowledge Base at services.pitt.edu, as well as the TDAdmin, TDNext and TDClient services will unavailable from midnight to 4 a.m. ET on Saturday, Oct. 19, while the vendor (TeamDynamix) performs a system upgrade.

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The Internet Archive, known for its expansive collection of digital content and historical web snapshots, suffered a significant data breach impacting a whopping 31 million users.

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Pitt Information Technology is aware of a Microsoft issue that briefly affected the ability of some Microsoft Teams voice apps to receive calls between approximately 11:50 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10. Individual students, faculty, and staff who use Microsoft Teams did not experience any interruption in phone service. The issue did impact some departmental phone numbers and front desk numbers that use a specific type of Teams voice app. Pitt IT worked with the service provider to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and restore full service.

Microsoft provided a fix to address the intermittent issue that affected access to the Virtual Computing Lab for some students. Pitt IT applied the fix on Friday, Oct. 25. Testing during the weekend indicates that the fix has been successful and full service has been restored. Additional updates will be posted to status.pitt.edu as needed.

Microsoft confirms the issue has been fully resolved. If individuals are still experiencing residual affects from the issue when using new Outlook, Microsoft recommends the following steps: * Outlook Desktop Client: Please restart the Outlook client or app. Desktop users may need to restart twice due to caching. * Outlook on the Web Users: Refresh your session. If issues persist, clear your browser cache and refresh the session again. Pitt IT continues to monitor the service and will post additional updates to status.pitt.edu as needed.

Providing a summary of recent OCR activity, Pitt's HIPAA compliance, and updates to the FERPA Policy.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Monitoring confirms the issue has been fully resolved.

One of the easiest ways to boost your cybersecurity is to keep your software and apps updated. Every day, developers are looking for clues that hackers are trying to break into their systems. They are searching for holes where cybercriminals could sneak in, even if they’ve never been breached before. They then release updates to fix these issues and keep the bad actors out. All you have to do is install the latest updates for your devices, software, and apps — including web browsers — to get the latest protections.

NVIDIA’s Joint Center with the University of Pittsburgh for AI and Intelligent Systems will focus on computational opportunities across the health sciences, including applications of AI in clinical medicine and biomanufacturing.

Microsoft Corporation has announced security updates for October that affect a broad range of Microsoft products. Microsoft Corporation typically announces security updates on the second Tuesday of each month. Pitt Information Technology recommends that users immediately identify and install the security updates necessary to remediate these vulnerabilities by using Microsoft's Windows Update feature on their computers as soon as possible within the following guidelines:

TDX has taken steps to resolve the intermittent issue that affected TDX access for some users earlier this morning. Full service has been restored. Pitt IT continues to monitor the service and will post additional updates to status.pitt.edu as needed.

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

It was recently revealed that it's possible to combine Meta smart glasses with face image search technology to reveal anyone's personal details just by looking at them.