Our Business Office notified me that they were receiving spreadsheets that looks like this: Oh dear. It appears that the hashtags are taking over. How do we defend ourselves?! It turns out this is a simple issue. For some reason, Excel hides number values (including dates) any time the cell isn't wide enough to show [...]
Here is the script for an upcoming training on Phishing. As an educational professional, you may have thousands of student records passing through your control every year. Often, you are the only thing standing in between your families' private lives and anonymous profiteers looking to steal and sell their information. Phishing is any method of [...]
A big part of protecting yourself from being phished is knowing how to spot fake domain names. For example, CASE's website is: https://www.casedupage.com NOT: https://www.case.dupage.com https://www.casedupage.com.cn https://www.casedupage.gibblydoo.com https://wwwcasedupage.com https://www.сạsedupage.com Thankfully, the security company KnowBe4 (https://www.knowbe4.com/) offers up a free quiz so you can see how savvy you are (or aren't). Give it a whirl! Take [...]
A lot has happened to my OT Therapy Notes "system" since the last post so here is an update. Feel free to copy the template (version 1.0 as of 1/28/2020) into your own Google Drive here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AofCvfDUwFhqaLN6UeyetWTz712Ay1C-nJz0yaTiHi8/edit?usp=sharing Students' names are fake. This may be updated any time without warning! There have been lots improvements, including: [...]
Here we go, the first SPAM of the year, this time courtesy of Melinda Smith! OK so this one looks kind of obvious but let's list the immediate signs that something is phishy: Unfamiliar sender. Email is asking for something (appearing to be an invoice). Link in the email (we'll look at this in a [...]
Mary Furbush passed along this helpful resource - you should check it out, especially if you work in a Google Chrome district (which is most of them!) - https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2016/10/special-needs-extensions.html
Here's one that attacked multiple accounts early in the morning last Tuesday. The number of hits was alarming enough that I sent out a SPAM Alert to all CASE staff right from my smartphone. Now if you read my previous blog post, Don't Get Phished, you'll recognize a lot of the items on the list [...]
Last Thursday, I attended IDEACon in Schaumberg, IL for the singular purpose of learning as much as possible about the new student privacy law passed law Fall, which updates SOPPA and takes effect in July 2021. Google is in some hot water via a lawsuit from New Mexico's Attorney General (link) (thank you Mary Furbush [...]
Here's the latest version: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d-IoY4ZFT7hvu-vnPoIODlexp_Asq26Npce_4EFczvM/edit?usp=sharing Some important changes: There are no more calculated columns in the Caseload sheet. Just past from MyServiceTracker and go! I renamed it RS Therapy Notes instead of OT because it's really applicable anywhere RS service providers need to record quantifiable data! Just make sure that you change the title at [...]
The Student Online Privacy Protection Act (SOPPA) is a complex mess, but one rule did come out of it that we are beginning to address: Starting July 1, 2021, all student PII must be kept out of all personal online services, free or otherwise. That includes: Student names Special education data Social security numbers Text [...]
