Announcements
- Phishing Emails - Don't Get Hooked!
Watch this video. Would you take the bait?
What is Phishing?- Phishing is the practice of requesting confidentional information over email under false
pretenses in order to obtain credit card numbers, passwords or other personal data.
The University community is often a target of these types of email messages.
The Office of Information Technology (OIT) reminds you that email messages
asking for your personal information are bogus. NEVER respond to an email
asking for your personal information. OIT and UW-Platteville would NEVER
ask you for personal information by email. DO NOT, under any circumstances,
provide your username, password or birth date by email. DELETE such fake messages
immediately.
What happens if I do respond to a phishing email?
Several things can happen and have happened to those responding to phishing emails
with their UWP credentials.
- Your account is compromised, and the person can access your email, PeopleSoft data, and other confidential data you may have access to.
- Your account may be used to send spam messages from uwplatt.edu domain, which can cause outside providers such as AOL, Hotmail, Gmail, etc. to blacklist any email sent from a uwplatt.edu account.
- Spam email being sent from your account causes the mail delivery queue to back up. Due to the high number of outgoing spam messages, valid email from uwplatt.edu accounts is delayed.
You should never share your UWP credentials (NetID/password) with anyone. If you do respond to a phishing email, once we learn your account is compromised, we will change your password immediately. This causes temporary loss of access to your account until you can be notified.
If you do respond to a phishing email or have any questions contact the Help Desk or ResNet immediately.
Thank you. (Updated 6/29/2009)
- Collaboration Project
At the start of the Spring 2009 semester, an internal review was conducted of the current email and calendaring software used on campus. As a result of observations and feedback from the user community, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) has undertaken a project to research solutions that will provide the user community with feature sets for email and calendaring which will meet the needs of the University population and use industry standards. The project has been named Collaboration, in reference to collaborative software, which is software designed to help people involved in common tasks achieve their goals. These types of software systems include email and calendaring.
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