Summer Projects: Chowan

Chowan, the new temporary home of Centre’s dinning services was opened for operations June 22, 2008.  Information Technology Services’ part of the facility was providing cabling and equipment for voice and data.

 We installed 1 Cisco 3560 24 port PoE (Power over Ethernet) switch as well as two Cisco 1242 A/G wireless access points.  The switch is connected by fiber optic cable to both of Centre’s core backbone switches located in McReynolds Hall and Olin Hall at 1Gbit speed.  ITS also provided IP and analog phone service for the building though our network backbone.  The Sodexho staff will have access to wired and wireless data, while the students will be able to access Centre’s network service though wireless while visiting Chowan.

June 24, 2008. General Info, Infrastructure. No Comments.

New Scam Email

There’s a new email making the rounds that wants some “verification information” to setup some random email account.  Surprise!  It’s is a scam.  A copy of the message is below.  You can ignore safely ignore it should it arrive in your inbox.
BEGIN SCAM EMAIL>>>
NOTE: Reply all mails to- accountupgradedept@live.com
ACCOUNT UPGRADE TEAMFINAL VERIFICATION OF YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT
VERIFY YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT NOW
Dear webmail Account Owner,
This message is from upgrade team messaging center to all our webmail
account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and webmail account
center. We are deleting all our webmail accounts to create more space for new
accounts.To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it below
so that we will know that it’s a presently used account.
We have been sending this notice to all our webmail account owners and this is
the last notice/verification exercise.CONFIRM YOUR WEBMAIL IDENTITY BELOWEmail Username : ………. …..
EMAIL Password : …………….
Date of Birth : ……………..
Country or Territory : ……….Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account
within Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account
permanently. Thank you for using our webmail
Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ
Thanks,
Account Upgrade TeamNOTE: Reply all mails to- accountupgradedept@live.com
<<<END SCAM EMAILOrginally written by Seth Thompson of Centre College’s Information Technology Services

June 24, 2008. Alerts. No Comments.