Author: Dan Boyd

Many users are receiving emails with the subject of “Urgent Action Required”. These emails are fraudulent. The content of the email suggests there is a problem with their account and incoming emails will be “placed on hold”. Various methods are…

The end of the year saw a rash of fraudulent emails arrive on campus suggesting that an employee review or audit document was attached to them. The subjects varied from “Employee Audits” to “Employee Review” to “Employee Performance Appraisal”. These…

Welcome to January, a new year, and a new semester of college! This post is the first of a monthly series that will explore topics related to information security with practical tips, current trends in spam and phishing, and updates…

A relatively new email scam is to send emails suggesting that the recipient has watched pornographic material online. The scammers sometimes up the validity level by including a password, usually an old one, that the potential victim has used in…

Many users have received emails with “shared files” and subjects that read “Employee Performance Appraisial”. These are fraudulent and the links in them point to potentially malicious documents posted on Google Docs. The content of the email is posted below:…

A large number of fraudulent emails have been received by staff and faculty members of campus departments and/or schools. The emails purport to be from a department head or director and have the subject of “URGENT” (all caps). They all…

A large number of emails have been received by faculty, staff and students announcing an urgent (job) opportunity. The full text of the email is below, minus the web link that either is serving malware to visitors, or is simply…