Eastern Mennonite University
Communications from Information Systems management to the EMU Campus Community

February 22, 2006

EMU's Internet Connection Upgraded, Feb 2006

Information Systems increased the capacity of EMU's Internet connection by 50% during the last week of February. Over the last couple of months, we noted that the Internet connection was often at capacity. The timing worked out well, as our provider reduced their pricing, resulting in no additional charge for the capacity increase.

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Posted by ruttj at 05:31 PM | Comments (0)

February 14, 2006

Phishing: All Bank "Account Suspension Notifications" are Bogus!

This title is a bold one, but one we believe to be true -- and we want all EMU email users to be aware of it. Phishing will steal your identity! Period. An example of a phishing message recently received can be seen here. We wish our spam filtering could catch all of the nasty stuff, but it can't because it must "learn" to identify each new threat that the spammers and phishers broadcast to email users.

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Posted by ruttj at 02:08 PM | Comments (0)