Social Security Remediation

Purdue University Calumet has implemented tools for Social Security Number Remediation. Faculty and staff members may use the procedures linked through the TIPS FOR FACULTY & STAFF page to help keep their Social Security Number safe.
Click here for SSN Remediation info!

Tips for faculty and staff

Purdue University Calumet faculty and staff can use these tips to help create a safe and secure computing environment in their area, in which data is kept secure. If you follow these tips you can help protect yourself and your computer. Also, you will learn how you can secure your office.   Faculty and Staff Tips

Tips for Students

Purdue University Calumet students can use these tips to help them keep their laptops safe and to help them keep their class work safe. Also, students will learn what they can do in public labs on campus to stay secure.   Student Tips

Resource Access

There are many different resources that are available to faculty, staff and students on campus. To learn about these resources and how you can obtain access to them follow the link.   Resource Access

Have you received a suspicious e-mail?

If you believe that you have received an email that contains a virus or is suspicious, please forward it to abuse@calumet.purdue.edu immediately. E-mails send to this address are checked regularly, and early detection of any e-mail virus outbreak could be crucial to stopping the threat before it becomes a threat to the campus.

Challenge Question Implementation has arrived!

You can set up security questions so you can get your passwords changed over the phone! Click Here to sign up!

Trojan horses
A malicious program that is disguised as or embedded within legitimate software. The term is derived from the classical
myth of the Trojan Horse. They may look useful or interesting (or at the very least harmless) to an unsuspecting user,
but are actually harmful when executed. Often the term is shortened to simply Trojan.

Worms
Uses a network to send copies of itself to other systems and it may do so without any user intervention. Unlike a virus,
it does not need to attach itself to an existing program. Worms always harm the network (if only by consuming bandwidth),
whereas viruses always infect or corrupt files on a targeted computer.

True Viruses
A self-replicating computer program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents.
Common types of true viruses includes:

1. E-mail viruses - An e-mail virus will use an e-mail message as a mode of transport, and usually will copy
   itself by automatically mailing itself to hundreds of people in the victim's address book.

2. Logic Bombs - Logic bombs maliciously cause legitimate applications to fail. "An application, for example,
   might delete itself from the disk after a couple of runs as a copy protection scheme."