The internet connection for the campus is currently down ( 7:00pm Wednesday Nov, 12). It appears to be a problem with our upstream provider. We are working with them now to try and fix whatever is causing the problem. I will try to report back here when I learn more. [UPDATE Thursday Morning] [...]
In order to improve security and our users’ experience, we have begun to implement a Single Sign On system. With this system, you can log in once and gain access to several of our services without having to log in again. Right now, if you go to http://google.gustavus.edu you will be prompted with a log in [...]
Gustavus Technology Services would like to remind you that passwords should NEVER be sent via email. GTS will never need to ask you to email us your password. In recent weeks more and more people have replied to phishing attempts with their Gustavus password. These phishing attempts are sometimes very authentic looking email messages that ask [...]
I would like to pass along a short reminder to everyone. Never send your password by email. Gustavus will never ask you to respond to an email with your password. Even if we did, don’t respond with your password. What happens if you do respond to a phishing email with your password? Chances are your account [...]
In response to requests for a campus wide calendaring system, GTS has implemented Google Calendar for Gustavus. If you go to http://google.gustavus.edu you can log in with your Gustavus username and password and take a look. If you are a Faculty member or Student, all your fall term courses have been pre-populated. That has two [...]
As many of you noticed, there was another batch of phishing email sent to Gustavus email accounts over the weekend. Thank you to all of you who forwarded us the email. Your quick response allowed us to block any replies to those messages and keep the users who fell for it from divulging their passwords. As [...]
Yesterday at about 5:00pm an email was sent to all students with a very large email attachment. As a result of that email some of our mailservers ran out of disk space causing users to see a variety of issues with their email. Thursday morning we were able to free up some disk space and get [...]
I noticed that I was getting much more spam in my inbox in the past day so I looked into it a little further. It turns out that one of our 4 spamassassin servers was stuck and not filtering email. As a result many messages were not being checked for spam. Hence the increased spam [...]
Last night a large batch of phishing email was sent from “Gac Team” gacteam@bellsouth.net to many Gustavus email addresses. The message looked like this: VERIFY YOUR GAC EMAIL ACCOUNT NOW Dear Gac Email Account Owner, This message is from Gac messaging center to all Gac email account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center. [...]
For about 20 minutes this afternoon starting sometime after 1:00pm most of the internet was inaccessible. As far as I can tell the problem was not with us or our internet connection but was most likely somewhere a little bit farther up stream. My traceroutes were showing lots of issues past our ISP but possibly [...]