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IT News
Updated June 19, 2009New PowerPoint Presentation Posted
A new presentation about Adobe Acrobat 9 and its new and enhanced features has been posted on the Education & Training page.
IT SERVICE ADVISORY
Issue: Spoofing
On occasion you may receive an email in either your Microsoft Outlook Inbox or Postini Message Center (CTC’s outside spam filtering service) with your CTC email address as the sender. These emails are usually trying to sell you something or get you to click on a provided link. Although you never sent this email your email address is listed as the sender. How can this be? Simply put, your email address has been spoofed.
There are three forms of spoofing:
- Using your email address to send spam or fake email messages.
- Attempting to gain access to a system by posing as an authorized user.
- The unauthorized use of a third-party domain name as the sender’s name in an e-mail message e.g. PayPal or eBay notices.
Email addresses are generally harvested from various Web sites and newsgroups where users enter registration information. This information is then stored in a database for easy retrieval for future logons or to confirm access to specific areas of the Web site. Those databases can sometimes be compromised by crackers, the information harvested, and later sold to spammers. Spammers will pay up to $10 per megabyte for email addresses. If a spammer gets one or two unsuspecting users to give them money for a false advertisement then they have made their money back. Based on some reports, over 75% of all email traversing the Internet is spam and most is sent using a spoofed address.
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IT Scheduled Maintenance
This Week's Scheduled Maintenance Notice
Activity: Systems maintenance.
Time: Friday, 5:30 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. CDT.
Purpose: Preventive maintenance.
Impact on Service Delivery: Some services will be unavailable during this time.
Estimated Time of Restoration: Friday, 7:30 a.m. CDT.
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