Since the November 5 launch of Adelphi Gmail, more than 6,000 AU students and alumni have activated their accounts. We wanted to thank you for making this launch a great success.

If you have not yet activated your Adelphi Gmail account, you will need to do so by January 12, 2009. On that date, all official University communications will be sent to students' Adelphi Gmail accounts instead of to GroupWise accounts. In April 2009, GroupWise for students will be retired and any messages and files from your GroupWise account will be deleted.

We hope you have been enjoying using the AU Gmail service and all its features, including the easy navigation, message filtering, chat, calendar, Google Docs for collaboration and more. Please visit our Frequently Asked Questions and Resources pages to make the most of your new Adelphi Gmail.

If you have any further questions, please contact:

IT HelpDesk
Office of Information Technology
Swirbul Library, 2nd Floor
p - 516.877.3340
e - helpdesk@adelphi.edu

The Office of Information Technology is pleased to announce Adelphi's partnership with Google to host our student email accounts.

Effective November 5, 2008, all Adelphi students have the opportunity to activate their new @mail.adelphi.edu accounts and use the Gmail for AU services while transitioning from GroupWise.

Please note: Effective January 12, 2009, all official university email will be delivered to student Gmail accounts and will not be delivered to student GroupWise accounts.

We have developed an extensive FAQ to help you transition to the new Adelphi Gmail system. If you have any questions that are not answered by the FAQ or by the Gmail Help Center, please contact the Adelphi's IT HelpDesk for assistance.

IT HelpDesk
Office of Information Technology
Swirbul Library, 2nd Floor
p - 516.877.3340
e - helpdesk@adelphi.edu

Adelphi IT asks all Adelphi faculty, staff, and students to be especially cautious if you receive any email messages regarding your "Adelphi Email Account" or similar language. Do not respond to any such password requests. An email phishing scam that has targeted other universities has also been reported at Adelphi in the form of a password request/account activation.

Please note: Adelphi's IT HelpDesk or network administrators will never contact a user to ask for your password for any reason.

If you receive a similar message that you believe is a phishing scam, please forward it to helpdesk@adelphi.edu. Do not open any attachments or respond to the sender.

A new form of phishing has been detected in which recipients of an email message are informed that their bank account at a credit union has been suspended due to suspicious activity. The email instructs the recipient to call an interactive phone system in order to verify the account. The computerized voice sounds very professional, and will request personal information.

Do not call the phone number and do not share any personal information. This is a scam. The interactive voice computer system is operated by attackers who are after your personal information.

If you did respond to the message and you left personal information, please contact the HelpDesk immediately:

IT HelpDesk
Office of Information Technology
Swirbul Library, 2nd Floor
p - 516.877.3340
e - helpdesk@adelphi.edu

The Office of Information Technology is pleased to announce Adelphi's partnership with Google to host our student email accounts.

Effective November 5, 2008, all Adelphi students will have the opportunity to activate their new @mail.adelphi.edu accounts and use the Gmail for AU services while transitioning from GroupWise.

Please note: Effective January 20, 2009, all official university email will be delivered to those new Gmail accounts and will not be delivered to student GroupWise accounts.

We have developed an extensive FAQ to help you transition to the new Adelphi Gmail system. If you have any questions that are not answered by the FAQ or by the Gmail Help Center, please contact the Adelphi IT HelpDesk for assistance.

IT HelpDesk
Office of Information Technology
Swirbul Library, 2nd Floor
p - 516.877.3340
e - helpdesk@adelphi.edu

Adelphi IT asks all Adelphi faculty, staff, and students to be especially cautious if you receive any email messages regarding your "Adelphi Email Account" or similar language. Do not respond to any such password requests. An email phishing scam that has targeted other universities has also been reported at Adelphi in the form of a password request/account activation.

Please note: The Adelphi IT HelpDesk or network administrators will never contact a user to ask for your password for any reason.

If you receive a similar message that you believe is a phishing scam, please forward it to helpdesk@adelphi.edu. Do not open any attachments or respond to the sender.

A new form of phishing has been detected in which recipients of an email message are informed that their bank account at a credit union has been suspended due to suspicious activity. The email instructs the recipient to call an interactive phone system in order to verify the account. The computerized voice sounds very professional, and will request personal information.

Do not call the phone number and do not share any personal information. This is a scam. The interactive voice computer system is operated by attackers who are after your personal information.

If you did respond to the message and you left personal information, please contact the IT HelpDesk immediately:

IT HelpDesk
Office of Information Technology
Swirbul Library, 2nd Floor
p - 516.877.3340
e - helpdesk@adelphi.edu

Adelphi has implemented a new authentication service to increase security while providing better integration with existing and future services.

About the New Method
CAS (Central Authentication Service) is a utility now used at Adelphi that enables you to access multiple applications by typing your username and password credentials one time. You will use your same universal username and password as before. If you don't know your password or have trouble logging in, please reset your password using the on-screen links at http://ecampus.adelphi.edu.

Once logged in using CAS, you can visit any Adelphi web application that uses CAS authentication without having to log in again for a certain period of time.

CAS provides a means for our online applications to remain secure while not inconveniencing you by having to log on to every service. This method also improves security by simplifying the procedures each application follows in order to perform authentication. Use of CAS reduces the risk of username and password exposure because it requires the transmission of this information only once.

Technical Info
CAS was originally created by Yale University to provide a trusted way for an application to authenticate a user.

When you access secure content, there are two phases you must go through to be allowed to access it: authentication and authorization. Authentication is proving that you are who you say you are. Authorization is determining whether a proven person has permission to access something. CAS handles authentication. By logging in to CAS, CAS can authenticate your identity to participating services because you have authenticated yourself to CAS and CAS is trusted by the services that use it.

For other questions or for information relating to Adelphi's web applications, contact:

IT HelpDesk
Office of Information Technology
Swirbul Library, 2nd Floor
p - 516.877.3340
e - helpdesk@adelphi.edu

Customer Services asks all Adelphi faculty, staff, and students to be especially cautious if you receive any email messages regarding your "Adelphi Email Account" or similar language. Do not respond to any such password requests. An email phishing scam that has targeted other universities has also been reported at Adelphi in the form of a password request/account activation.

Please note: Adelphi IT HelpDesk or network administrators will never contact a user to ask for your password for any reason.

If you receive a similar message that you believe is a phishing scam, please forward it to helpdesk@adelphi.edu. Do not open any attachments or respond to the sender.

Authors of malicious software are attempting to trick users into downloading and executing their programs in increasingly creative ways. Adelphi's Computer Security Incident Response team recently began tracking the latest of these attempts, described below.

Users with a valid Adelphi email address have reported receiving email that claims "A Friend" has sent them an e-card. In the message is a link, which when a user clicks on it, will download and attempt to execute a program.

To prevent your computer from being infected with malicious software do not allow the program to execute.

In situations like this, common sense must prevail. Why would someone be sending you an e-card without disclosing their name? Why would a friend ask you to run a program that you don't already have on your computer?

Please be careful when opening e-cards. If you did accidentally open the e-card and allowed the program to execute, please notify Customer Services immediately at ext. 3340.

Never trust attachments that you do not expect and never run programs directly off the Internet — if you are certain it's from a trusted source, you should still save the program to your computer first to allow for a virus scan.

IT HelpDesk
Office of Information Technology
Swirbul Library, 2nd Floor
p - 516.877.3340
e - helpdesk@adelphi.edu

Adelphi students, faculty, and staff are advised to be especially cautious in light of a recent phishing attack that has targeted universities in the form of a password request.

Please note: The Adelphi IT HelpDesk or network administrators will never contact a user to ask for your password for any reason. Adelphi policy does not allow the sharing of passwords with anyone, for any reason. Passwords are issued to individuals, who are responsible for keeping them confidential.

The University of Cincinnati and several other universities have been targeted by a phishing attack in which students and faculty were asked to send their passwords by email. Unfortunately, several users did respond to the scam email with their logon credentials, making their personal information vulnerable.

If you receive a similar message that you believe is a phishing scam, do not respond to it. Please forward it to helpdesk@adelphi.edu.

On Friday morning, January 18, the Office of Information Technology & Resources launched the new Panther system.

If you have an account on Adelphi's Unix-based Panther system, you need to be aware of how the new Panther's software upgrades and security requirements will affect you:

You will now use your Universal eCampus Username and Password to log in to Panther. Your old Panther username and password will not work on the new system, and you will need to contact Customer Services to activate your new Panther account.

Connections via Telnet and FTP are no longer permitted. You must use Secure Shell (SSH) to log in to the system, and Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to transfer files. If you do not have SSH and SFTP clients, or aren't sure if you do, you can find links to software at http://infotech.adelphi.edu/services/panther.php.

New Panther will no longer provide email. Panther email will continue to be delivered to the old system until it is deactivated (see below).

The former Panther system, including all existing data, email, and accounts on the system, will be available at oldpanther.adelphi.edu until June 2008. Please make sure that you back up or transfer all of you necessary files to the new system as soon as possible. As an account holder, you are responsible for transferring your own files from the old Panther system.

If you experience problems or have questions, please contact:

IT HelpDesk
Office of Information Technology
Swirbul Library, 2nd Floor
p - 516.877.3340
e - helpdesk@adelphi.edu