All central university technology resources may be affected while necessary servers are replaced, upgrades are installed and routine maintenance is conducted. The following UST resources may experience intermittent interruptions between 6 a.m and noon Sunday, Nov. 22:

• BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES)
• Exchange ActivSync (EAS)
• Email
• MailMarshal
• Lyris
• Blackboard
• UST Web
• Collage
• RFS
• Banner
• Optix
• R25 and Event Viewer
• Courseweb
• ReportNet
• Appworx
• Cognos
• Murphy Online
• NetID
• Breeze / Adobe Connect
• Library databases

Late yesterday afternoon, we began receiving reports of a new fraudulent email attack ('phishing attack') specifically targeting the UST community. Some members of the campus have received email purporting to be from 'IRT', and containing a "Warning Code". These emails, like other recent attacks, ask the member to update their email account information by entering their NetID and password, warning that email service will be suspended unless this information is provided.

Although this fraudulent email contains numerous misspellings and grammatical errors, in many ways this message looks legitimate. It is not.

Once again, IRT will never ask a member of the campus community to provide their NetID password, and especially not via email. If you receive an email requesting you provide this information, please ignore/destroy it - it is not a legitimate request. If you ever receive an email from IRT that you question, please feel free to call the IRT Tech Desk at 651-962-6230 to verify its authenticity.

If you already responded to this phishing scam, please change your password immediately.

_____________________________________________________
From: Help-Desk [web-helpdesk1@live.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:29 AM
To: web@helpdesk.org
Subject: Upgrade Your E-mail Account

Your Webmail Quota Has Exceeded The Set Quota/Limit Which Is 20GB.Your Are Currently Running On 19.8GB due to hidden files and folder on your Mailbox.Please you are to follow the Below information to Validate Your Mailbox And Increase Your Quota.

First Name:________________
Username/ID:_______________
Password:________________
Confirm Password:______________

Failure to follow this process to Validate Your Quota may result in loss Of important information in your Mailbox/Or Cause Limited Access To It.

Warning!!! Account owners that refuses to update his or her account within stipulated time of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.
Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ
Thanks,
Webmail Administrator