Computing Services and Instructional Technology

We have just been informed by Windstream - the Internet Service Provider (ISP) for Nebraska Wesleyan - that scheduled maintenance operations on their network equipment are likely to disrupt Wesleyan's Internet connection.

"Phishing" is the term used to refer to a type of email scam.  This type of scam attempts to entice those who receive the email into revealing sensitive and/or confidential information, either by return email or by directing them to a Web site.  Typically, phishing scams hope to capture email account information - username and password - in order to hyjack the accounts of those who respond.  Hyjacked accounts are used as an origin address for spam, other types of email scams or more phishing.  Other more sophisticated phishing scams attempt to capture acco