The UF community should be on alert for a fraudulent e-mail message (subject: "Confirm Your Ufl Webmail Account") which is currently circulating on the Internet. This message is a 'phishing' scam -- an attempt to lure recipients into revealing personal information for the purpose of identity theft.
Please do NOT respond to the "Confirm Your Ufl Webmail Account" message!
Any legitimate communication from UF regarding your account will include a telephone number you can call to verify the authenticity of the message.
And in any case, you should never share your UF/GatorLink password with ANYONE! Not your spouse/partner, children, best friend, Help-Desk tech-support person, nor ANYONE! EVER!
See the UF Security ID Theft and Other Internet Scams page for more information about protecting your identity.
Effective July 1, 2008, network monitoring and protection methods (Wall-Plate Port Security) will automatically shut down any Wall-Plate port showing symptoms of looping, packet storms, attachment of unauthorized network equipment, or unauthorized DHCP distribution. Ports shut down will be scanned periodically and will remain disabled until the problem is cleared. Local subnet managers will receive email notification when ports are shut down.
The 2008 Spring edition of /Update, the CNS Newsletter is now available!
As always, our goal is to make sure /Update continues to be an informative and useful source of news and knowledge about UF's central computing facilities and services.
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This page was last updated May. 5, 2008 by CNS Information Services
