On Sept. 20, students and employees were alerted via an email from Steve Earle, chief information officer of the Information Technology (IT) department, that they might have been targets of a wave of phishing attacks. The email warned students about the phishing attack that appeared as an email seemingly...

(This story was originally published in print on Oct. 17, 2019). With cybersecurity threats on the rise, colleges and universities around the country have seen an increase in data breaches. An attack at the university level could result in massive data loss, which corresponds to massive financial...