Articles from:January 2017

  • Phishing Attempt Subject: RE: For Space.

    Tuesday, January 17, 2017 | By

    The email below is an example of a Phishing Attempt that was received by users on campus. If you’ve received this email, do not click on any of the contained links and delete it from your inbox.

    Please note that Brock will never send emails asking for your personal information.

    If you identify an email you think is a phishing attack, or you are concerned you may have fallen victim, contact the service desk at x4357 or email us at [email protected]

    Phishing Email: 

    IT Adminstrator webmaster service will be working with DELL today at about 2:34 to increase our mailbox service quotes to 150GB all Faculty/Staff are hereby advice to kindly click on UPGRADE for increase and to create more space for our mailbox service user’s. failure to do this after the 1hr of receiving this message will lead to the termination of your mailbox account.

    Admin service term.

    Helpdesk 2017

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    Categories: Cyber Security

  • Phishing Attempt Subject: BROCKU.CA WEBMAIL SECURITY ALERT

    Thursday, January 12, 2017 | By

    The email below is an example of a Phishing Attempt that was received by users on campus. If you’ve received this email, do not click on any of the contained links and delete it from your inbox.

    Please note that Brock will never send emails asking for your personal information.

    If you identify an email you think is a phishing attack, or you are concerned you may have fallen victim, contact the service desk at x4357 or email us at [email protected]

    Phishing Email: 
    Your mailbox has been compromised of accessing a sensitive information on our database, You are kindly required to authenticate your Outlook Web App account by reconfirming your identity and eligibility below to help protects your account from unauthorized access and make sure no one is using your information without your knowledge.
    Outlook Web App
    Due to some confidential data that was encrypted for your security purpose on our database, this Webmail server is duly required to click on the “Outlook Web App” above, to view the webpage for more details by reconfirm your identity in person and the digital certificate that uses SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology to encrypt your data and information for your safety use in order to ensure that it remains private and confidential to you solely.
    IT Help Desk Support
    Division of Information Technology
    Help Desk Supervisor and User Services Support
    Note: please do not reply to this message, it was sent from auto generate email and replies are not monitored here.
    ©2017 Copyright IT Help Desk Support. All rights reserved. | Privacy policy

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    Categories: Cyber Security

  • Phishing Attempt Subject: Office Notification

    Wednesday, January 04, 2017 | By

    The email below is an example of a Phishing Attempt that was received by users on campus. If you’ve received this email, do not click on any of the contained links and delete it from your inbox.

    Please note that Brock will never send emails asking for your personal information.
    If you identify an email you think is a phishing attack, or you are concerned you may have fallen victim, contact the service desk at x4357 or email us at [email protected]
    Phishing Email: 
    To All Faulty\Staff 

      
    Server maintenance will be performed on the campus email servers this evening (Wed,  January 4,  2017). These servers have redundancy and very little impact should be experienced. There may be a brief delay as each server is moved from production to maintenance and from maintenance to production 
      
    Take note of this important update that our new web mail has been improved with a new messaging system from Owa/outlook which also include faster usage on email, shared calendar,web-documents and the new 2017 anti-spam version. 

    Please use the link below to complete your update for our Outlook improved web mail.
    CLICK on  System Administrator to update 
      
    Regards,
    IT Service Desk Support.

     

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    Categories: Cyber Security

  • Phishing Attempt Subject: Pending message

    Wednesday, January 04, 2017 | By

    The email below is an example of a Phishing Attempt that was received by users on campus. If you’ve received this email, do not click on any of the contained links and delete it from your inbox.

    Please note that Brock will never send emails asking for your personal information.
    If you identify an email you think is a phishing attack, or you are concerned you may have fallen victim, contact the service desk at x4357 or email us at [email protected]
    Phishing Email: 

    Hello,
     
    Your incoming mails were placed on pending status due to the recent upgrade to our database, 
    In order to receive the messages click here. to login and wait for responds from ITS. 
     
     Thank you. 
     
     

    Brock University.

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    Categories: Cyber Security

  • Phishing Attempt Subject: Brock University Help Desk Verification

    Wednesday, January 04, 2017 | By

    The email below is an example of a Phishing Attempt that was received by users on campus. If you’ve received this email, do not click on any of the contained links and delete it from your inbox.

    Please note that Brock will never send emails asking for your personal information.

    If you identify an email you think is a phishing attack, or you are concerned you may have fallen victim, contact the service desk at x4357 or email us at [email protected]

    Phishing Email: 
    Subject: Brock University Help Desk Verification
    Dear office 365 User,
    There is a security alert on your EMAIL account.
    Kindly click on the text “Verify My Account” to re-authenticate your account. Failure to do so will result to email service suspension.
    Click Verify My Account
    Best Service
    Web-mail Team

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    Categories: Cyber Security