Archive for the 'spam' Category
Apr
1
Did the Conficker Get Me?
April 1, 2009 | 5 Comments
Currently it’s all quiet on the Western front regarding the April 1st Conflicker virus but here’s a handy-dandy eye chart to determine if your machine has been infected. TRU stakeholders can contact the service desk at itservicedesk@tru.ca or 250-852-6800 for further assistance. Notes from our communiques on this virus Conficker is a computer worm that [...]
Feb
13
Une semaine d’enfer
February 13, 2009 | Comments Off
Things weren’t going well before Tuesday. We continue to battle a serious defect in the code of our student email system – and with 51,000 active accounts this is no easy thing to debug. For the last four weeks, Carla Granberg has been working miracles on this issue and there may be light at the [...]
Jan
16
BOT Wars – News from the front
January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
From guest blogger, colleague and IT Security Guru Hugh Burley, CISSP… You may not be aware that you are part of a war raging on the Internet. At TRU over 90% of all email directed to our accounts is SPAM. Every time one of these messages slips through our SPAM gateway and you open it, [...]
Nov
25
Spanish Prisoners and other Scams
November 25, 2008 | 2 Comments
While some TRU staff have fallen victim to targeted spear-phishing incidents here, I am hopeful that everyone is aware of the Spanish Prisoner confidence trick or the modern variant, the 419 Nigerian Money Transfer Scam. You know the drill: you receive an spam email with copious spelling mistakes informing you how a deposed rich person [...]