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- Proper Care and Feeding of your Exchange Email and Calendaring
- How to use Spam Quarantine to stop spam emails
- Safe Computing at MIT and Best Security Practices: Safe Computing presentation.pdf
- MIT users should install Sophos to protect against malware and virus attacks
- All Macs should be using Time Machine to provide local, disaster recovery backups for your Mac. The Time Machine software comes on your Mac. All you need is an external hard drive connected to your Mac to run the backup. If you work with private client information, please contact either Albert or Dan first so we can make sure the drive you're using is encrypted.
- All Windows 7 users and later should be using Windows Backup to provide local, disaster recovery backups for your Windows computer. Like Time Machine on the Mac, all you need is an external hard drive connected to your Windows computer to run the backup. If you work with private client information, please contact either Albert or Dan first so we can make sure the drive you're using is encrypted.
- For a secondary internet off site backups for just your data files, we recommend everyone use IS&T's newly adopted Crash Plan. We recommend everyone use BOTH Time Machine or Windows Backup AND Crash Plan to make sure all of your files are 100% backed up and secured.
- Lifehacker has a great resource on how to stay safe on public WiFi.
- Unsure if the network you're connecting to is safe? F-secure has an online router checker to attempt to verify.
- What is crypto? Here is a great primer on the nuts and bolts of encryption and why it's important.
- Best practices for travelers to secure their work, personal, and research data overseas.
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting 101: The easy stuff to do to hopefully get your computer quickly working again.
- Proper Care and Feeding of your MIT Email and Calendaring
- How to remove old certificates from Firefox. Do this only after quitting and relaunching Firefox (after renewing your certificates) doesn't work. Then you will need to get your certificates again.
- IS&T has a guide to troubleshooting renewed certificates that don't work.
- How to unset a hard drive from Time Machine on the Mac if you accidentally make it a backup drive.
- Should you update to Mac OS 10.12 Sierra and how to approach Sierra problems when you run into them.
- There are these Notification bubbles that keep appearing in the upper right corner of OS X. How do I turn Notifications off?
- How to connect from off campus to MIT via VPN on a Mac or Windows machine
- How to connect using DUO authentication to all MIT services that require it
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