Month: February 2008

Replacement Cycle, Students

Summer employment opportunities

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Information Technology Services is accepting applications for summertime employment. Apply Online Please be sure to check the position you are interested in AS WELL AS the “I am interested only in summer positions” boxes. Summer Technical Support Associate Classification: Category III pay rate Hours: 8:30-4:30 weekdays; starting late May until Aug. 1 Duties: Upgrade faculty/staff computers according to described procedure. This includes backing up files on the old computer, configuring new computer, installing the backed up files on the new computer, installing software and removal of old computer hardware. Candidate should be: very comfortable with the Mac OS and Windows … Continue reading Summer employment opportunities

Email, Security

Happy Valentine’s Day?! Join a Botnet!!

Nick

Malware writers are hoping that you’ll open that Valentine’s Day card they sent you. Unfortunately, in addition to a greeting, the seemingly innocent “card” will be downloading malicious software to your PC. Once downloaded, your PC will become a bot, or drone, and will then join a “botnet“. The good news is that these trojan Valentine’s Day cards require you to click on a URL link within the email. That link will then show you festive images (below) while it downloads malicious software such as ‘valentine.exe’. The downloads are constantly changing (morphing) so as to avoid detection by anti-virus software. … Continue reading Happy Valentine’s Day?! Join a Botnet!!

Help Desk, Security, Software, Tips

Patches, patches, and more patches!!

Nick

Whether you’re a Windows or Mac user, major software vendors have released multiple patches in the past several days to close existing security holes within your system. There are also important security fixes available for popular applications like Adobe Acrobat, Mozilla Firefox and QuickTime. Beginning with Apple, there is a security patch for Mac OS X 10.4 (Security Update 2008-001). This single patch fixes five security vulnerabilities. Additionally, an upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5.2 has become available. This upgrade fixes eight security holes and also updates functionality over 10.4. Apple’s software update feature should detect the availability of these … Continue reading Patches, patches, and more patches!!