There were two big items for this week’s blog: malicious email from Pres. Schulz and lose of the Lyris email list system. On Wednesday I was contacted by a couple of people here who had received a suspicious email from Pres. Schulz’s office about taking a survey. The subject was “ACTION REQUIRED – Essential WSU Employee […]
Fortunately, there are no new issues to report. Some phishing emails are still coming from infected WSU email accounts. But the numbers seem to be dropping. There was one that came through this morning that had a new twist. It stated that “IP Security upgrades discovered an irregular Login attempt” and it even gave an […]
Tuesday’s Internet outage As I’m sure you all noticed, we had a major internet outage on Tuesday. We started with intermittent disruptions until the system completely failed by 10:28 am and stayed down until nearly 7 pm. The good news is that it wasn’t a fault of any of our equipment or firewall settings. The bad news is […]
It’s been a challenging week for the campus IT security group. First, there was a continuation of attacks on the system and the associated “fixes”. Some of their fixes lead to other problems, such as some people losing their connection to Office 365 and shared drives either completely or intermittently. The fixes will be ongoing […]
What is Proofpoint and why did I get this strange email? WSU IT security subscribes to a hosted inbound email virus and spam filtering service called Proofpoint. Proofpoint maintains all the software and hardware; all email security policies and filtering are managed by WSU. How does Proofpoint work? If Proofpoint detects that one of your inbound […]
For the most part, this has been a good week for our connectivity. There were no interruptions to our internet and no drops to classes. There are still some issues with bridging and last minute call-in number changes, but these are out of our control. In addition to the 480- and 780- prefixes, they now have 771- […]
Do you get a lot of spam and junk mail in your inbox? There are ways to “harden” your Outlook inbox to help block unwanted email. By default, Outlook does not have email filtering enabled. Assuming you are using Outlook 2016, Follow these steps: (To view how to change settings when using Office 365 mail […]