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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 [...]

The mail server upgrade has been completed and ITS is working on two remaining issues:
Some people are having problems sending email from off campus when using an email client such as; Eudora, Outlook or Thunderbird. If you are having a problem with outgoing messages please use Swatmail, our web interface for sending and receiving [...]

On occasion, Swarthmore College email users are subjected to focused phishing attacks appearing to originate from the Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union. Phishing involves sending a bogus email, appearing to originate from a legitimate source, which attempts to get the recipient to click on a malicious URL. Phishing emails typically try to steal [...]

We know that the license expiration warnings are somewhat bothersome, but fortunately they are only temporary. Our Academic Computing and Systems groups are currently testing software that will make it easier and better for Macintosh computers to connect to some of our core servers. This process includes trial licenses for a short period [...]