The following video serves as a reminder that this is the time of the year to be extra vigilant for phishing emails and other Internet scams. This video is courtesy of some talented folks at the University of Rochester. Bet you have trouble getting this tune out of your head… Continue reading Phishing Video Reminder for the Holidays!
Phishing remains an ever popular way to get computer users to install malicious code or visit sites that they didn’t choose. Many of the phishing attempts here at Swarthmore seem to fall into one of two categories: – Email account and/or password related – Government related (i.e., IRS, Federal Reserve, ACH, etc.) It should be pretty easy to recognize the first category since Swarthmore ITS will never ask for your password in an email and will never disable your email account while actively enrolled at or employed by the college. As for emails that appear to come from the U.S. … Continue reading How Do You Like Your Phish?
If you’ve ever been working with your smartphone or computer and thought, “there has to be an easier way to do this”, it turns out you’re most likely right. David Pogue’s recent articles at The New York Times, “Ins and Outs of Gadgetry” and “25 More Things Everyone Should Know” offer tips and tricks to make the technology-related aspects of your life easier. In these articles Pogue covers a wide range of topics from filling out online forms, to spotting “phishing” attemps in your inbox. Below Pogue addresses the practice of capturing screenshots on both Windows and Mac OSX platforms: … Continue reading Learn “Things Everyone Should Know” by David Pogue at The New York Times
Congratulations Swarthmore class of 2011! It is time to prepare for your upcoming account expiration on June 15th. We know this is a busy time in your life, but that makes it all the more important that you read the attached web page carefully. Now is the time to be saving all the work you have completed while at Swarthmore and transitioning to a new email address. What will happen to my accounts? The following Swarthmore accounts will be disabled on June 15th: * Voice Mail * Email (ability to check, receive, or forward your Swarthmore email) * Network (userfolders, … Continue reading Make sure you back up all your important files and email before graduation!
We are only a few weeks away from the start of the summer research season. Are you trying to accomplish more with your projects this summer? Do you find that documenting summer projects has been difficult, time consuming, or ineffective? If you are looking for ways to improve how you document, publicize, or carry out your research projects, ITS is here to help. Wikis – Wikis are ideal for documenting group projects because they make it easy to create and update web pages that link to one another and keep a history of all the contributions of each member. Instead … Continue reading Ideas for Summer Projects and Research
Many of us receive our email in what’s known as HTML format. In other words, when you receive an email, it can display multiple fonts, colors, pictures, etc. It’s nice to look at. Unfortunately, the technology that allows your email to be formatted in an aesthetically pleasing way also provides holes for malicious attackers to abuse. So, to make your email safer to read, it needs to be uglier! This is simply accomplished by reading your email in plain text format. Below is an example of an email (supposedly from Facebook) in HTML format followed by the same exact email … Continue reading Reading Your Email the Plain Ol’ (Safer!) Way
