Computing Services
Computing Services » maintenance updates
Computing Services Maintenance for Thursday, February 9th, 2012
The following maintenance activities will take place beginning at 9 PM during our regularly scheduled maintenance window: The Windows Print Server and one of the Active Directory servers will be rebooted after installing critical security patches. Users should experience less than 5 minutes of downtime printing to networked printers. The campus LDAP, wiki, email lists, [...]
Computing Services » security tips
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month!
National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), conducted every October since 2004, is an annual awareness-raising effort that seeks to encourage everyone to protect their networks and our nation’s critical cyber infrastructure. Today’s Tip: Keep a Clean Machine. Keep security software current: Having the latest security software, web browser, and operating system are the best defenses [...]
February 2010 Security Tip: A Phishing Challenge
One of the Computing Services staff members recently forwarded this phishing test: http://www.sonicwall.com/phishing/ It’s not an easy test. Most of the Computing Services staff that took it missed at least one question, including me. We all thought the test provided some good clues on how to identify a phishing or spam email. Take the test [...]
January 2010: Computer Security Tip
While email attachments are a popular and convenient way to send documents, they are also a common source of viruses. Use caution when opening attachments, even if they appear to have been sent by someone you know. Some of the characteristics that make email attachments convenient and popular are also the ones that make them [...]
