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(English) OFFICE 365 FAQs

Donderdag, September 29th, 2016

Jammer, hierdie bladsy is nie in Afrikaans beskikbaar nie.

(English) Another phishing e-mail

Woensdag, September 28th, 2016

Jammer, hierdie bladsy is nie in Afrikaans beskikbaar nie.

(English) Dangerous Phishing Scam: ITS Service Desk

Maandag, September 26th, 2016

Jammer, hierdie bladsy is nie in Afrikaans beskikbaar nie.

(English) Phishing scam disguised as a mail about a “Web-mail update”

Donderdag, Augustus 11th, 2016

The scammers never stop trying to fool people and this particular version of a phishing scam is NOT new. This is the third time this year that this version of a typical phishing scam has arrived in university mail accounts. Last time it fooled several people, personnel and students alike, so there IS a danger.

I have attached a screenshot of the scam and highlighted the tricks that the criminals use to fool us. See if you can spot them yourselves…

  1. Sent from a compromised account, not in South Africa (In this case a university in the USA)
  2. It is not addressed to you… Just a “Dear Webmail user”
  3. The amounts displayed that Webmail account have are incorrect. Stellenbosch Students have 1Tb of storage on their Office365 accounts. Personnel currently has 500Mb by default.
  4. Large letters telling you the “CLICK HERE” to “”update” your account. The link does not go to a Stellenbosch site, but a server under the control of the scammers elsewhere.
  5. Threatening language to bully you into complying with their scam.

webmail-scam

So how do you tell the difference between a phishing message and a legitimate message? Unfortunately, there is no one single technique that works in every situation, but there are 10 things that you can look for:

  1. The message contains a mismatched URL – If the hyperlinked address is different from the address that is displayed, the message is probably fraudulent or malicious.
  2. URLs contain a misleading domain name – The last part of a domain name is the most telling. If the links do NOT end with SUN.AC.ZA, then it is a phishing scam.
  3. The message contains poor spelling and grammar – with the growth of SMS, WhatsApp and social media, poor spelling and grammar have become the norm, but bad grammar will never come from Information Technology.
  4. The message asks for personal information – No matter how official an email message might look, it is always a bad sign if the message asks for personal information. Your bank doesn’t need you to send them your account number. They already know what that is.
  5. The offer seems too good to be true – There is an old saying that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. If you receive a message from someone unknown to you who is making big promises, the message is probably a scam.
  6. You didn’t initiate the action – If you get a message informing you that you have won a contest you did not enter, you can be sure that the message is a scam.
  7. You’re asked to send money to cover expenses – One telltale sign of a phishing email is that you will eventually be asked for money. If that happens, you can be sure that it’s a scam.
  8. The message makes unrealistic threats – If a message makes unrealistic threats, it’s probably a scam.
  9. The message appears to be from a government agency – Phishing artists who want to use intimidation don’t always pose as a bank. Sometimes they’ll send messages claiming to have come from a law enforcement agency, SARS, or the SA Police , or just about any other entity that might scare the average law-abiding citizen.
  10. Something just doesn’t look right – casino security teams are taught to look for anything that JDLR—Just Doesn’t Look Right. This same principle almost always applies to email messages.

[ARTICLE BY DAVID WILES]

 

Vals e-pos skep verwarring

Vrydag, Julie 15th, 2016

 IT se “Admin Desk” het verlede week talle e-posse uitgestuur om personeel en studente te versoek om rekeninge te heraktiveer. Of het ons? Gelukkig word ons gebruikers nie meer met `n slap riem gevang nie. Of is julle?

Phishing e-posse, wat vra dat jy jou e-posrekening heraktiveer, is uitgestuur vanaf die rekening “The IT Admin Desk”. Twee ander e-posse is gestuur deur “ADMIN TEAM” en “IT SERVICE DESK” vanaf dieselfde bron, gekaapte e-posse by opvoedkundige instellings in Minnesota en Iowa. 

Al die e-posse versoek dat jy, deur middel van `n skakel, aanteken om jou rekening te verifieer of opdateer. Een is herlei na `n bediener in Brasilië, die ander Kalifornië. 

Moenie reageer op hierdie e-posse nie en moet ook nie na die verskafte webwerfadres gaan nie. Moenie jou gebruikersnaam, wagwoord, of enige ander inligting op die webwerf invul nie.

Universiteit Stellenbosch se Informasietegnologie-afdeling hoef nie jou gebruikersnaam en wagwoord te vra nie. Die enigste plek waar dit nodig is om in te vul is op www.sun.ac.za/useradm, waar jy jou eie rekening bestuur. IT kan jou e-posrekening skuif of opgradeer sonder dat jy enigiets hoef te doen. 

Ons e-posse sal altyd herkenbaar wees, in dieselfde formaat en in Afrikaans en Engels. 

Indien jy onseker is oor ‘n e-pos, vra vir jou plaaslike rekenaarkundige of kontak die IT Dienstoonbank (021-8084367 of helpinfo@sun.ac.za).

Hier is `n voorbeeld van die phishing e-pos: 

From: I, Amscammer

Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 5:56 AM

To: 1,Amscammer

Subject: ADMIN TEAM/IT SERVICE DESK/IT HELPDESK/IT SUPPORT/WEBMAIL ADMIN (and all variations you could think of) 

Dear E-mail User:- 

Take note of this important update that our new webmail has been improved with a new messaging system from Owa/outlook which also include faster usage on e-mail, shared calendar,web-documents and the New 2016 Anti-Spam Version. 

Please use the link below to complete your update for our new Owa/outlook improved webmail.

Log on to Outlook Web Access<http://iam.aspammer.com> to update your mailbox.

ITS Help Desk
ADMIN TEAM
©Copyright 2016 Microsoft Outlook
All Right Reserved.

[INLIGTING VERSKAF DEUR DAVID WILES]

 

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