Computing Services and Instructional Technology

At about 6:10pm today we became aware of a problem with the NWU-wireless and NWU-wireless24 networks which caused a service interruption.  The problem was caused by the failure of our Radius authentication server which controls access to these two secure networks.  The underlying problem with the authentication server was addressed and the server returned to duty at ab

In what is thought to be the first event of its kind, an Uber self-driving vehicle has struck and killed a pedestrian.

b. January 8, 1942, Oxford, England.

d. March 14, 2018, Cambridge, England.

The universe is now less bright, in every sense of the phrase.

Equifax - the credit monitoring and rating company - revealed today that the data breach which they first made public in September of 2017 was larger than they initially reported. The incremental increase, however, may seem small in comparison to the size of the original breach.

Absent action from Congress to block the change, the current FCC policy favoring net neutrality will end on April 23 of this year.  Documents were filed fo Federal Register on February 22 whcih would revoke the existing regulations requiring Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to treat all Internet content equally, a policy referred to as net neutrality.

Colleague should now be back up and available for use.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Mark

CSIT has received reports of a new phishing scam which uses Dropbox as a lure.  Dropbox, of course, is one of several the cloud storage and file sharing solutions.

Please be aware the CSIT has received a number of reports from faculty and staff of a new phishing scam targeting NWU accounts.  This particular variant has managed to evade the security filters on our Office 365 tenancy, so you may see it in your Inbox.

WebAdvisor has moved to a new website over the weekend.  The new address to access WebAdvisor is https://webadv.nebrwesleyan.edu/WebAdvisor/WebAdvisor.  If you have this site bookmarked, please update your bookmark to the new website since the old site will eventually stop working.  If you use the link off of CSIT’s webpage, th

As our new semester begins, CSIT is receiving reports of a widespread new phishing scam reaching NWU user Inboxes.  Some details of this particular scam are included below.  Please be alert for this - as well as other - phishing scams as we move through this transitional period.