Info Sec news News Archive
Now that we’re meeting virtually for the unforeseeable future, the popular virtual conferencing app, Zoom, has been a heavy target for cyber criminals. Fear not, there are things you can do to make your Zoom meetings safer: Patch early, patch often. Use the Waiting Room option. Take control over screen sharing. Use random meeting IDs
Due to recent news, cybercriminals have a new twist on phishing emails: Coronavirus scams. Cybercriminals often exploit popular topics and fears, and they haven’t overlooked the widespread fear of COVID-19. The Office of Information Technology asks the Marshall community to continue to stay alert of fraudulent emails and follow safety guidelines when responding to emails
On Monday, February 10th, 2020, Marshall University will begin migrating email to Office 365. The university is beginning the migration of all on campus email services to Microsoft hosted services online (Office 365). This change is being made to combine all email clients for students, faculty and staff on one consistent email platform. The university is migrating all users from
The location of the buttons used to report Spam and Not Spam has changed.
Over the next two months, Marshall University will be migrating all V: Drive storage to Microsoft OneDrive. You will receive a completion status message from IT Announcements (itannouncements-noreply@marshall.edu) once your V: Drive has been fully migrated. Once migration is complete, you will be able to access the files you previously stored on your V: Drive
6/20/20: As of 1:00 PM Lynda Campus is now available. Please report any access issues to the IT Service Desk. 6/19/19: Our Lynda Campus subscription is not currently available. MUIT staff are investigating the problem and actively working to restore access. We hope to have service restored soon. Check back here for future updates. To
On Sunday morning, July 7th, during the maintenance window, MUIT will be enabling MFA on our Virtual Private Network (VPN) service. Our records show you have enrolled in MFA. Great Job! You can now experience VPN with MFA as an early adopter by selecting “MU_Remote_AccessTest” from the dropdown list. Instructions for early adoption are
Marshall University Information Technology has updated our “Tech Tips” for 2019.
Marshall University Information Technology is applying a major upgrade to the email firewall service, called Barracuda Essentials, on Sunday, May 19, 2019. Barracuda Essentials provides advanced protection against fraudulent email for both Faculty/Staff email (on-premise Exchange) and Student email (Office365). It also provides security for outgoing mail to external sources, assisting in the discovery and
Thursday, May 16th, 2019: Update for Banner Users – [Action Required] This coming Sunday morning, May 19th, 2019, during the scheduled maintenance window, Enterprise Applications will be enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on Banner 9. If you have already enrolled in MFA, you will be prompted to enter your full Marshall University email address to begin the