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On a regular basis, the Swarthmore community receives emails from malicious individuals requesting their passwords and sometimes other personally sensitive information.
These emails are often cleverly disguised to look like they originated from an official source such as ITS. These attacks on the community are known as “phishing”.
{For more info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing}
Unfortunately, when community members [...]

ITS tested Google Chrome on several of our swat online services, and found that many swat services function properly. Chrome is packed with many features that are easy to use including navigation and search history. If you are interested in road testing Google Chrome, feel free to download it; but keep in mind, Chrome is [...]

EUDORA MIGRATION CONTINUES
During the summer over 170 faculty and staff members have transitioned from Eudora to another email client. Thunderbird is the most popular email client selected. Beginning in October, ITS will be scheduling a time to migrate current Eudora users.
We understand that changing e-mail software can be inconvenient so please consider the following [...]

Office 2007
Starting this summer, ITS began transitioning the campus from Microsoft Office 2003 (Windows) to Microsoft Office 2007. Starting this semester, all classroom computers, all public and managed departmental labs, and all new machines and setups will have the 2007 versions of Office installed on them. ITS has been working closely with faculty and staff [...]

If you use a handheld device to check email, keep track of meetings, make calls, and download files and/papers, ITS strongly recommends using an autolock and other built-in password security measures. Implementing a password known only to you will ensure an added layer of security for your protection.
Follow this link to learn how-to

To Swarthmore College Faculty, Staff, and Students:
The new Higher Education Opportunity Act imposes a variety of federal regulatory and reporting requirements on colleges and universities. Two provisions are designed to reduce illegal sharing of copyrighted works using file sharing on college networks. While the law will be clarified through the regulatory process, we are required [...]

ITS is pleased to announce the launch of a new online directory of contact information for faculty, staff, and students at
http://www.swarthmore.edu/directory
The new directory provides a simpler search interface and more up-to-date information based on the data in Banner, the College’s central database.
Need to update your information?
Please login to mySwarthmore to change your department, location, and [...]