Dear faculty, students, and staff, The following email is a phishing attack designed to steal your username and password. The email claims to notify you of pending messages in Blackboard and the embedded link takes you to a generic looking
WiFi maintenance this Friday from 1pm to 3pm
Dear faculty, students, and staff, We will perform maintenance on the WiFi network on Friday, 11 November 2016 from 1pm to 3pm. You will experience short intermittent outage of the WiFi network during this time. Please let us know if
Problem connecting to main campus (fixed)
Dear faculty, staff, and students, We were experiencing problems connecting to the main campus systems including the main website, email to/from main campus, and Workday. The problem has been fixed but the root cause under investigation. Please contact us if
Phishing attack: attempt to steal AndrewID and password
Dear faculty, staff, and students, The email below is a phishing attack attempting to steal your AndrewID and password. The email falsely claims that CMU is implementing a new security system and asks you to login to activate it. The
Phishing alert: new cover story to steal your password
Dear faculty, staff, and students, The email shown below is an attempt to steal your password. The email requests you to send copies of your published papers with links to the papers in the email. However, one of the links
Another phishing attack: attempt to steal AndrewID and password
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, The email below is a phishing attempt with a link to a page masquerading as an Outlook Web Access login page to try to steal your AndrewID and password. If you receive a similar email,
Backboard outage today (Tuesday) from 5:00pm to 5:30pm
Dear faculty and students, We need to perform some maintenance on Blackboard this afternoon. Blackboard will not be available from 5:00 to 5:30pm today (Tuesday, Oct 4, 2016). Please let us know if you have questions or concerns regarding this
Phishing attack: attempt to steal AndrewID and password
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, The email below is a phishing attempt with a link to a fake login page to try to steal your AndrewID and password. If you receive a similar email, please forward it to qatar-infosec@qatar.cmu.edu as
Maintenance on campus gateway routers
Dear faculty, students, and staff, IT will be upgrading the campus gateway routers (the routers that communicate with the outside world) this Saturday (1 Oct) morning from 8:00am to 12-noon. You will experience intermittent short interruptions in connecting to campus
AndrewID password system maintenance: Friday 2AM to 4AM Sep 23rd
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, The CMU Password Management System will be down for maintenance Friday September 23rd from 2:00AM to 4:00AM Qatar time. You will not have access to the service https://identity.andrew.cmu.edu or change your AndrewID password during this