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Social engineering and what it means Social engineering. THE BEST DEFINITIONS I’VE FOUND FOR IT ARE—”Any act that influences a person to make decisions that may or may not be in their best interests”. Followed by—”The practical application of social principals to particular social problems”. In the case of criminals email and people encourage you … Read more
Employment scams are on the rise targeting students as well as adults. The most common scams that we see are: 1) Job offers–Identity take-over, Bank account fraud 2) Spoofed email addressto look like it came from inside Wesleyan to extract HR/tax/employment information 3) Fake logon page to extract credentials Job offers—These emails are designed … Read more
This is an example of a blackmail email. The passwords are old and form one of the countless breaches companies have had the lsat several years. The phrasing can vary a bit and the password will be old. However, it may be active if you haven’t ever changed it. Please, red the article on … Read more
Dear Wesleyan Community, The PeopleSoft Student System will be upgraded this weekend. The upgrade will require two distinct downtimes: Downtime #1 WesPortal, WFS, and HR will come down for one hour from noon to 1:00 pm on Friday, March 16, 2018 for data backup. Downtime #2 The Student system will also come down at noon, … Read more
This is 100% legitimate. Wesleyan is launching a Cybersecurity Awareness program. The letter should look very similar to the following screenshot. Additionally, here is the link referenced in the screenshot below: https://wesleyanedu.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0010767
ITS is working with our telecommunications vendor on a problem with the voicemail system. Voicemail is currently not responding and the line will continue to ring. We will update the community when we know more.
Saturday’s (1/13/2018) PeopleSoft Maintenance is Complete
VPN issues have been resolved. Services are working normally. ITS is actively working on problems with VPN connections. Once connected, not all services are accessible or performing correctly. We will keep the community posted as we know more.
On Thursday evening, January 11, ITS will be performing network maintenance between 6 PM and 10 PM. We expect this work to be largely transparent to the community. You may experience up to five minutes of network interruption during a couple of intervals in the course of this work. Should this happen, please retry the … Read more
The network maintenance scheduled for tomorrow, Jan 6, between 8 and 10 AM will continue as planned. There may be brief interruption to internet service during this time. Please refer to Twitter and Facebook for alerts should there be unexpected downtime. ITS has, however, rescheduled the PeopleSoft downtime to Saturday, Jan 13 between 6:00 am and noon … Read more
