<div dir="ltr"><div>Apologies in advance for cross-posting but given the proliferation of cyber security issues in e-mail and out on the Internet in general, I thought this might be of some use for our community.</div><div><br></div><div>First, a reminder to be very careful about clicking on suspicious links, replying to unsolicited e-mails and opening unsolicited file attachments.</div><div><br></div><div>I personally have received emails that seemed to come from administrators at my institution asking me to transfer funds and pay invoices.I got this clarified by reaching out to the administrators either in person or by phone to confirm.</div><div><br></div><div>On other occasions, our I.T. department actually sent out test probes to help remind people to be careful. These looked legitimate and I'm thinking that this might be an emerging best practice at many institutions to remind users to exercise safe computing.</div><div><br></div><div>On a more directly relevant note to the issue of journals fishing for paper submissions purely out of profit motives, Im reminded of Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory journals. I think he stopped publishing the list but here's a pointer to a paper on his experiences doing this (<a href="https://www.biochemia-medica.com/en/journal/27/2/10.11613/BM.2017.029">https://www.biochemia-medica.com/en/journal/27/2/10.11613/BM.2017.029</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>Makes me wonder if anybody has something similar with what I might call "predatory" conferences?</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, a very timely topic.</div><div><br></div><div>Wishing you all safe computing and of course staying physically safe and healthy.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Hoover Chan <a href="mailto:hoover.chan@gmail.com">hoover.chan@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:hchan@mail.ewind.com" target="_blank">hchan@mail.ewind.com</a> -or- <a href="mailto:hchan@well.com" target="_blank">hchan@well.com</a> <a href="mailto:hoover.chan@ucsf.edu" target="_blank">hoover.chan@ucsf.edu</a><br></div></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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