Information Technology Services Blog

There have been several reports of very convincing emails purporting to be from Verizon Wireless, requesting that you pay your bill.  The emails look very authentic, with logos and advertising, but link off to a non-Verizon website where the attackers are seeking to steal your credit card and/or bank account information.

Sample 1:

Sample 2:

Please be wary of such emails, and always double check the links that you click in emails.

If you have clicked on links in one of these fake Verizon emails, please contact the Helpdesk for assistance.

Faculty, Staff, and Students,

On Saturday, June 16, Information Technology Services staff will be performing required system updates. From 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. the following systems will be intermittently unavailable:

-Flash media server
-Foodpro
-Groupwise mobility server
-Holy Cross blogs
-Holy Cross departmental websites
-Jaspersoft
-Network file access for academic departments
-Password reset
-PeopleSoft Finance
-PeopleSoft HR and HR self-service
-Resource Space

In addition there will be a 15 minute outage of email services for faculty and staff during the 6 a.m.-10 a.m. maintenance period.

Millions of Linkedin and eHarmony passwords have been compromised per various news reports circulating on the Internet and via other media.  Hackers have managed to decipher hundreds of thousands of these passwords and are progressing through them at a rapid pace.

ITS highly recommends changing your password on these services if you utilize them.  In addition, and more importantly, if your Holy Cross network password, passwords you use for third-party College systems, online banking, Facebook or other passwords resemble the ones you utilize for Linkedin or eHarmony, it is extremely important that you change those as well.

Please also be on the alert that scammers are utilizing these breaches to trick you into providing them with your personal information.  There are reports of phishing emails, purporting to be from Linkedin, telling you to change your password, and sending you to a non-Linkedin website to do so.   Instead of clicking links in emails, visit the sites directly by typing in the URL manually.

aculty, Staff, and Students,

On Saturday, June 2, Information Technology Services staff will be performing required system updates. From 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. the following systems will be intermittently unavailable:

-Blackberry services
-Catholicsandculture.holycross.edu
-Cognos
-Holy Cross login page
-EZ proxy
-Image Now
-Kronos (time clocks will remain online)
-Mahara
-Net storage
-Nutritive analysis menus
-One Card services
-Password reset
-People Soft Finance
-People Soft HR & HR self-service
-Publish.holycross.edu
-STAR