Email News Archive
Critical Notice: This morning mass phishing emails (see below) were sent out to Faculty, Staff, and Students from a compromised account. If you went to the link within the email and entered your information, please remain vigilant as the attacker will likely attempt to contact you. If at any point you were asked to enter
The following is a message from Information Technology to all freshman students and has been approved by the IT Executive group: Marshall University Information Technology (MUIT) is working to consolidate all users’ UserPrincipalName (UPN) and primary email addresses to be user@marshall.edu. If you are receiving this email communication it is because either your UserPrincipalName is
Description of the Incident: Starting in the evening of Friday October 23 and extending until early afternoon Saturday October 24, there were periodic disruptions in e-mail delivery services for members of the Marshall University community. The disruption was caused by a Microsoft enabled University-wide e-mail security measure – a circuit breaker of sorts – which
This message to all students, faculty and staff has been approved by Jon B. Cutler, Chief Information Security Officer As we start the fall semester, we remind you of the important role which you have in the cyber security of Marshall University. Please review a few key steps listed below which you can take in
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.
Information Technology will be making changes to School of Medicine Office365 accounts over the next week. If you have an Office365 account with a mailbox as well as an Exchange mailbox, then our goal is to make it so that you will no longer have a separate inbox in Office365. Any email addressed to your
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
(Please don’t let this this be you.) The Marshall University Information Technology team have received a number of reports from faculty and staff who have been recipients of a new twist on an old e-mail scam. You may have heard of phishing before, but these scams are referred to as whaling. They use a “big