“Collection #1” – Data Breach
As you might have already read in the news, personal data (email-addresses, passwords,…) has been published and sold on the internet – again. Read More …
Tag: Security
Phishing mail from April 17, 2018
The following phishing mail has been sent to a number of IST Austria recipients. The sender address seem to be a hacked university (Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University) account. From: Nourah A. Algdeb <naalgdeb@pnu.edu.sa> Subject: Informationszentrum IST Owa 2018 Screenshot of the email: Do not click on links or download attachments of suspicious emails.
New Virus scan @ IST Austria
In the coming weeks the IT department will gradually roll out a new antivirus product on all IST Windows computers. The currently used F-Secure Antivirus will be replaced by the ESET Endpoint Protection. ESET setup will run in the background, you’ll only notice a couple of notifications from the Windows Action Center: first Antivirus software Read More …
Verbund emails – again
Another mutation of the infamous Verbund trojan has reached some users. Please just delete these emails on arrival, you see a screenshot below. As always: Stay suspicious when receiving emails which contain external links or attachments, and if unsure forward mails to it@ist.ac.at, and we’ll check them for you.