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K-State using geolocation for cybersecurity

Posted on by Christine Doucette

""The internet is an incredible tool for learning and sharing information, but it poses a cybersecurity threat. To keep hackers from stealing your personal information, K-State uses geolocation to safeguard accounts from being compromised by utilizing IP information. If suspicious activity is recognized, the user will receive an email notification of the activity with recommendations on the next steps, which could include updating account passwords.

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K-State is now using geolocation

Posted on by Christine Doucette

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Over the summer, K-State began using geolocation to assist in safeguarding accounts from being compromised by utilizing IP information on computers and mobile devices. With geolocation, users will be alerted of suspicious attempts to access K-State accounts. If suspicious activity is recognized, the user will receive an email notification of the activity with recommendations on the next steps, which could include updating account passwords.

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K-State will begin using geolocation for increased security on June 12

Posted on by Christine Doucette

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K-State will begin using geolocation to assist in safeguarding accounts from being compromised by utilizing IP information on computers and mobile devices on Monday, June 12. With geolocation, users will be alerted of suspicious attempts to access K-State accounts. If suspicious activity is recognized, the user will receive an email notification of the activity with recommendations on the next steps, which could include updating account passwords.

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IDT roundtable March 25: "A Sense of Where We Are: Geographic Information Science and Systems"

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

From Garmins to Google Earth, we are increasingly more connected in finding our way and understanding our earth. At the core of these cool tools is Geographic Information Science and Systems (GIScience, GIS, GPS…). To find your way into, or toward, your next step with these spatial temporal tools and datasets, come explore with K-State experts and the K-State GIScience Commons team.

The sixth presentation of the Instructional Design Technology Roundtable (id.ome.ksu.edu/roundtable) will feature geographic information systems. Eric A. Bernard, associate professor in Landscape Architecture, Regional and Community Planning (www.capd.ksu.edu/larcp), will be presenting with the K-State GIScience Commons team 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday, March 25, in Room 212 of the K-State Student Union.

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Spotlight: Find computers through geolocation IP address searches

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

Think you can go online and visit websites and post to social networking spaces anonymously?  Think again.

Most websites collect Internet protocol (IP) address information, which is unique to each computer on a network.  A fairly recent feature of IP-address look-ups involves the layering of the geospatial aspect — the actual location of the computer user.

The following is a screenshot of the geolocation of a K-State computer and its origins, as verified by the free www.hostip.info (“host IP”) site.

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