{"id":529,"date":"2026-01-12T16:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/?page_id=529"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:00:46","slug":"it-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/it-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"OT Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/2026\/03\/17\/new-zoom-license-options\/\">New Zoom License Options<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-03-17T16:13:02+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">March 17, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">In March of 2026 the Seminary renewed its Zoom license and with the new Zoom licensing model new features became available to faculty, staff, and students. Below are summaries of the best new features. Zoom Scheduler Do you want to have online office hours? Do you regularly meet with people outside of the Seminary and\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/2026\/03\/17\/new-zoom-license-options\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: New Zoom License Options<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/2026\/02\/25\/passphrases-and-new-zoom-features\/\">Passphrases and new Zoom features<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-02-25T21:01:38+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">February 25, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Passphrases are coming this summer! This is a good thing for both security and remembering our logins. What is a passphrase?&nbsp; It is a longer and more secure alternative to a traditional password. Our current password policy has only an 8 character minimum and a bunch of requirements around numbers, symbols, and upper\/lower-case. With a\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/2026\/02\/25\/passphrases-and-new-zoom-features\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Passphrases and new Zoom features<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/2026\/01\/12\/happy-2026-a-look-back-at-phishing-and-scams-in-2025\/\">Happy 2026! A look back at phishing and scams in 2025.<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-01-12T16:00:45+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">January 12, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Many Email Scams in 2025 With so many retrospectives on 2025 being published, this seems like the time to look back on the increased number of phishing attacks or money scams targeting the campus this past year. We had so many more scams in 2025 than I&#8217;ve ever seen in my 28 years in IT.&nbsp;\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/2026\/01\/12\/happy-2026-a-look-back-at-phishing-and-scams-in-2025\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Happy 2026! A look back at phishing and scams in 2025.<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-529","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}