By Harry Rowe | Staff WriterA phishing cyber-attack occurred this week, leaving potentially hundreds of students’ information at risk. Phishing occurs when hackers make emails appear as if they are coming from a reputable source. The phishing attack, sent through emails, attempted to have students enter their Baylor sign-in information through a link. Once a student entered that information, it used that student’s account to send out more emails to all of their contacts. “A lot of times the way we talk about this is a social attack or social engineering,” said Jon Allen, chief information security officer and interim…
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By Harry Rowe | Staff Writer A total of five motor vehicles were reported stolen on the 1200 block of James Avenue Sept. 4-5, according to Baylor’s Campus Crime and Fire Log. Although the incident was reported on the log, the burglaries took place outside of Baylor’s regular crime report area. The log includes additional incidents outside of Baylor police’s normal range of patrol. Baylor’s log includes the EPRA, or extended patrol range area. This area reaches as far as South 17th Street. Tonya Hudson, Baylor’s director of communications, explained that because it occurred in BUPD’s extended patrol, there’s a…
By Harry Rowe | Staff WriterThe Baylor Simpson Center, one of several athletic complexes on campus, had firefighters and police called to it late Monday night as smoke filled up one of its staircases. Police were notified of smoke in the building, but were unable to locate where the source was right away, according to a Baylor Police officer at the scene. Maintenance could be seen from outside working on ladders and searching through ceiling paneling, searching for clues of where the smoke came from. Garrett Ellis, a firefighter on the scene, said there was smoke when the Waco Fire…
By Harry Rowe | Staff Writer One problem college students often face — especially freshmen — is weight gain. A statistical analysis from Nuffield Department of Population Health, a research center in Oxford, revealed more than 5,500 college freshmen had an average weight gain of three pounds over five months.Stan Wilfong, a registered dietitian and consumer science lecturer at Baylor, said the stress of a new place and a new lifestyle can challenge students in their attempt to keep up with healthy habits. “[Students] tend to have more free time than they had in the past; when you went to…
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