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Information Technology Services Warns of Phishing Scams

Information Technology Services has been notified about two recent e-mail phishing scams from accounts claiming to be Binghamton University e-mail addresses and asking recipients to send their passwords via a reply e-mail.

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Date: May 02, 2008

Bytes ‘n Bites Session: Reducing Unwanted Email

Bytes ‘n Bites session offered Fri. Jan. 25:

Spam: How can you reduce unwanted email in your inbox?

Join Tom Blake and Tunis Cooper for a short presentation on tools, techniques and tricks you can use to reduce unwanted email. They’ll also discuss ways you can use your mail client to filter the mail in your inbox so that important messages are spotted quickly.

When: Friday, January 25 - Noon to 1:00 pm

Where: Academic A, G05, The Collaboratory

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Date: Jan 24, 2008

E-Mail Accounts Frozen Until Sept. 24

ITS will freeze email accounts beginning Wednesday, Sept. 19, to prepare for the transition to the new Mirapoint email system. No new accounts will be created, no changes will be permitted to forwarding or aliases and no quota changes will be made until the transition is complete. The transition should be complete by Monday, Sept. 24.

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Date: Sep 17, 2007

ITS Bytes ’n Bites Returns This Thursday, Sept. 13

Information Technology Services announces the return of Bytes ’n Bites, a casual forum for discussion of technology issues for the Binghamton University community. The first forum of the year, to be held from noon - 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, in LH-10, will be Mirapoint: Binghamton’s new e-mail system.

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Date: Sep 11, 2007

Mail System Change on Sunday, September 23

Campus electronic mail is being converted to a Mirapoint mail appliance. The final cut over is scheduled to begin at approximately 6:00 p.m., on Sunday, September 23. The transition includes transferring user accounts, forwarding addresses, aliases, existing inboxes and SquirrelMail address books from the Cyrus server environment to Mirapoint. The major noticeable difference is a switch in authentication from Kerberos to the PodsID. Your mail password will now be the same as your Pods password.

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Date: Sep 10, 2007

"Storm" Surge Likely Spam Culprit

Storm, the Trojan horse that collects PCs into hacker-controlled botnets has become the most prolific e-mail-borne malware ever. According to a computerworld.com article, Storm is designed to propagate more copies of itself, as well as release huge quantities of spam.

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Date: Aug 23, 2007

Be Wary of Fake E-cards Carrying Viruses

Think you got a nice greeting card from a friend va e-mail? Well, think twice before opening it. The newest computer virus threats are turning up in fake plain-text e-cards that look real, but carry nasty viruses.

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Date: Aug 23, 2007