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1. Phishing / Smishing
We are in unprecedented times and seeing a significant uptick in rather unpleasant phishing attacks. Whilst this is nothing new, the impact with people working remotely is greater. It is much harder for us to clean and clear machines that get infected as part of phishing attacks. Therefore, everyone should be super vigilant and sceptical about any links that are sent either by email or by text message. Mitigations:
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If you’re in any doubt about whether an email is genuine or not, send it to phishing@lse.ac.uk and we’ll take a look.
2. Sharing a home computer for work
Many of us will be sharing a computer or facilities at home and as such particular care should be taken on storing files on the hard disk of personal machines. You’ve got to make sure that your work data is only accessible to you. Mitigations:
Set up password control on the shared device with different accounts for each of the family. This is just good practice anyway and will mitigate accidental disclosure or deletions.
Ideally don’t store any data on the hard drive but instead use your OneDrive account. Everyone in LSE has a 1tb of encrypted secure storage just for them. The school does not recommend any other shared or cloud storage other than that provided.
You can easily encrypt office documents by adding a password to them. If you want to create encrypted volumes on your home computer, you can use free tool VeraCrypt to do this
3. Home machine – keep your Antivirus and Malware up to date
You do have Anti-virus don’t you?
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...And remember to keep patching! Installing the regular security updates that are released for both your operating system and the software you use is one of the main ways you help keep your machine safe.
4. Final messages
If you are using the standard LSE provided equipment and services then we have a degree of protection for both your ability to carry on working and securing the data you hold.
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