Year: 2020

Keisuke Kameyama
Director of Academic computing & communications center
Masayuki Orimo
Leader of Information Security Incident Response Team & Information security risk manager

 

Support for Adobe Flash Player will end on December 31, 2020.

https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

Flash Player is a web browser add-in software that enables dynamic display.
After December 31, 2020, support will end and it will not be updated.
If you continue to use it, security problems will occur, so please be sure to do the following during December.

[Server administrator]

Please make sure that the viewers cannot access Flash contents by deleting them or moving them to restricted directories.
If necessary, please consider converting the contents to alternative formats such as HTML5.

[For all faculty and staff]

Do the following depending on your web browser:

1. Disable Flash Player on Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome
   Edge: Access [Menu]> [Settings]> [Search Settings] and enter “flash”, and set to [Always block Flash].
   Chrome: Access [Menu]>[Settings]>[Search settings] and enter “flash”, and set to [Block the execution of Flash on the site].
2. Uninstall Flash Player on Windows version of Microsoft IE and Mozilla Firefox
   https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html
3. Uninstall Flash Player on Mac OS version of Safari
   https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-mac-os.html

　　* If you are using any other web browser, please respond based on the information provided by the vendor.

On November 20, 2020, the 10th University of Tsukuba FD Workshop Information Security Seminar was held at online.

In this year’s seminar, as the first half of part 1, Kenichi Terashita of Fortinet Japan Co., Ltd. gave a lecture titled “Attacker’s Psychology and Our Attitude in Cyberspace”. As the second half of part 1, Masayuki Orimo, Director of Information Security Risk Management Office, and Dr. Kazuki Katagishi, associate professor at the Academic Computing & Communications Center, gave a lecture titled “Our University’s information security initiatives and points to note – Caution for suspicious Emails and Points to note based on Incident Response Status”, and 235 participants gathered.

As the first half of part 2, Keisuke Kameyama, Director of the Academic Computing & Communications Center, gave a lecture entitled “Toward the realization of vulnerability inspection”. As the second half of part 2, Dr. Akira Sato, Associate Professor of the Academic Computing & Communications Center, gave a lecture titled “Less than one year left until the zoning is completed! The concrete transition work will be like this”, and 162 participants gathered.

Participants commented such as “I was able to know the latest trends in information security risks, which was very helpful.”

It was valuable opportunity to deepen the knowledge of information security through the incident cases and the status of efforts at our university, and to raise awareness of information security incidents that may occur in our daily lives.

[All faculty and staff, server administrator] Regarding the end of support for Adobe Flash Player

Keisuke Kameyama
Director of Academic computing & communications center
Masayuki Orimo
Leader of Information Security Incident Response Team & Information security risk manager

 

Support for Adobe Flash Player will end on December 31, 2020.

https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

Flash Player is a web browser add-in software that enables dynamic display.
After December 31, 2020, support will end and it will not be updated.
If you continue to use it, security problems will occur, so please be sure to do the following during December.

[Server administrator]

Please make sure that the viewers cannot access Flash contents by deleting them or moving them to restricted directories.
If necessary, please consider converting the contents to alternative formats such as HTML5.

[For all faculty and staff]

Do the following depending on your web browser:

1. Disable Flash Player on Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome
   Edge: Access [Menu]> [Settings]> [Search Settings] and enter “flash”, and set to [Always block Flash].
   Chrome: Access [Menu]>[Settings]>[Search settings] and enter “flash”, and set to [Block the execution of Flash on the site].
2. Uninstall Flash Player on Windows version of Microsoft IE and Mozilla Firefox
   https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html
3. Uninstall Flash Player on Mac OS version of Safari
   https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-mac-os.html

Keisuke Kameyama
Director of Academic computing & communications center
Masayuki Orimo
Leader of Information Security Incident Response Team & Information security risk manager

Support for Microsoft Office 2010 and Office 2016 for Mac will end on October 13, 2020.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/office-2016-mac-office-2010-end-of-support

If you are using it, there will be security issues.  Please be sure to upgrade by the EES below.

<University of Tsukuba Microsoft Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES)>
https://ds.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp/ms-ees/index.en.html/

(reference)
https://ksp.sec.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp/?p=121341
https://oii.tsukuba.ac.jp/2019/04/03/news/782/

The University of Tsukuba has prepared e-Learning materials for self-study aimed at improving ICT (information and communication technology) proficiency of our students and staff. The course covers basic knowledge of ICTs, relevant laws, as well as manners necessary to avoid harm and trouble in the network society.

To take the course, access the University of Tsukuba e-Learning system “manaba.“
After reading through the 7 chapters of the textbook, take the 5 completion tests.
Each test can be taken repeatedly. Try achieving full marks on each of them.

Please refer to the following guides to register for the course.
“INFOSS Information Ethics Course”

Inquiries: Organization for Information Infrastructure（Department of General Affairs,Division of Information Management）
E-Mail：oii-security [at] oii.tsukuba.ac.jp