Phishing attempts targeting your passwords and access to your account

The Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges invites you to Cyber Security Awareness Month information sessions to be held virtually Wednesdays throughout October, 2024. All are open to the entire Lehigh community. Register now.

Attackers continue to develop more sophisticated methods into manipulating users to bypass the protections of passwords and insecure two-factor authentication. Library and Technology Services is responding by increasing the security required to access your computing account. Beginning March 4, 2024, insecure authentication methods will no longer function.

In light of the rapidly evolving IT security landscape, Library and Technology Services wants to remind you to take a crucial step toward ensuring the security of Lehigh computers and data: rebooting your PC.

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As a part of LTS' continuous effort to improve the security and convenience of Lehigh's information systems, we are phasing out the use of security questions in the password recovery process for Lehigh computing accounts.

In 2019 we began Lehigh’s Two-factor Authentication (2FA) program to protect our community against identity attacks. The program has been highly successful but we are starting to see a rise in account compromises and so we will be elevating our security measures.

The Lehigh University Information Security Team wants you to be aware of a new level of phishing attack that is currently being launched against some colleges, universities, and several other institutions across the country. This attack exploits some Duo two-factor authentication options. Please review this alert carefully.

Dear Lehigh faculty, students, and staff:

Library and Technology Services would like to remind the Lehigh community to follow these best practices for creating secure Zoom classes, meetings, and events: