{"id":10404,"date":"2018-10-12T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=10404"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:44","slug":"keep-your-personal-software-up-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/12\/keep-your-personal-software-up-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep your personal software up-to-date"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10407\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10407\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10407\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MPerformLabCCRB1639-e1539030150582.jpg\" alt=\"Blond woman working at computer with another woman in the background viewing a large video screen.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MPerform Lab at CCRB. (Michigan Photography)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We all should be in the habit of keeping our software up-to-date. This is necessary because vendors and others regularly identify security vulnerabilities in software and apps, and then release updates and patches to fix them. Additionally, keeping your software current enables you to take advantage of other improvements, such as better performance or new functionality.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Personal computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux\/Unix)<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep your operating system and applications updated. When available, turn on automatic updating.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only apply updates over a secure connection. Turn on the <a href=\"https:\/\/its.umich.edu\/enterprise\/wifi-networks\/vpn\/getting-started\">U-M VPN<\/a> if using untrusted wireless networks (such as guest wireless in a hotel or coffee shop).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Mobile devices (iPhone, Android, Windows, Chromebook)<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep your operating system updated.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do not make unauthorized modifications to your operating system.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only install trusted market apps\u2014and keep them updated.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/safecomputing.umich.edu\/protect-yourself\/secure-your-devices\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Secure Your Devices<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for more tips and details on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">appropriately securing and managing your personal devices.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all should be in the habit of keeping our software up-to-date. This is necessary because vendors and others regularly identify security vulnerabilities in software and apps, and then release updates and patches to fix them. Additionally, keeping your software current enables you to take advantage of other improvements, such as better performance or new functionality. Personal computers\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/12\/keep-your-personal-software-up-to-date\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":10407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[23,127],"class_list":["post-10404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safe-computing","tag-security","tag-software"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MPerformLabCCRB1639-e1539030150582.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MPerformLabCCRB1639-200x134.jpg",200,134,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MPerformLabCCRB1639-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MPerformLabCCRB1639-768x513.jpg",665,444,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MPerformLabCCRB1639-700x467.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MPerformLabCCRB1639-e1539030150582.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MPerformLabCCRB1639-e1539030150582.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MPerformLabCCRB1639-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MPerformLabCCRB1639-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MPerformLabCCRB1639-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MPerformLabCCRB1639-665x444.jpg",665,444,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MPerformLabCCRB1639-e1539030150582.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Matt Martin, ITS Privacy Office","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mattmart\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"We all should be in the habit of keeping our software up-to-date. This is necessary because vendors and others regularly identify security vulnerabilities in software and apps, and then release updates and patches to fix them. Additionally, keeping your software current enables you to take advantage of other improvements, such as better performance or new&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10417,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions\/10417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}