In May an analysis of hacked NetID accounts showed hackers focusing their efforts on faculty members more in 2025 than 2024. (See The Stats are In: Hackers Target Faculty).

Criminals have not let up. In fact, they’ve intensified their efforts over the summer, including believable (and successful) social engineering tactics.

Depending on how a hacker steals your information, it can take the better part of a day for the ITSO to help you fix a compromised NetID.

When it comes to hacked passwords, faculty accounts are high-value targets of these attacks, and are also more likely to have passwords stolen. Cornellians have gotten savvy to phishing attempts, so the absolute numbers remain small, but that just means that criminals are getting increasingly clever and persistent.  

Do you have access to research data or your students’ protected information like grades, home addresses, or other data regulated by FERPA? Can you make changes to your direct deposit online?  

Do you have a few minutes to adopt the gold standard of account security? 

If you answered yes to any of those questions, then make the switch from passwords to passkeys. Add Secure Connect one touch login to your account and shield it from attack. 

Set up A Secure Connect Passkey Today

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