October is Cyber Security Awareness Month!

In this past year, as you may be aware, on top of so much of our work/personal lives moving online we also saw an increase in targeted cyber attacks focused on health systems which has put us in a constant state of heightened alert.

Cyber criminals have gotten increasingly savvy at creating emails that look legitimate. In some cases, rather than using malicious URLs or attachments, an attacker will use social engineering and personalization to trick you into transferring money or sharing sensitive data. For more information on how you can stay safe online, view our Guide to Cybersecurity.

Apple has recently released security updates to protect against a major security vulnerability found within their iOS, iPadOS and macOS devices. In order to protect the integrity of the UCLA Health computing environment, you are required to install the latest updates on your Apple device.