Warning: Phishingmail circulating

Message-Id: 201704281806Time: 28/04/2017Affected: Users with mailboxesImpact: Delivery of a phishing message Unfortunately, the following phishing e-mail was delivered to some of our users at around 5:45pm: ——————– Your email account subscription has expired and your email is about to be suspended,Confirm your account to keep your email active.Click the secured support link below to confirm. [link removed], Thank … Read more

Warning: Phishingmail circulating

[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”201702091202″ time=”09/02/2017 – 11:15am” affected=”Users with mailboxes” impact=”Delivery of a phishing message” ] Unfortunately, the following phishing e-mail was delivered to some of our users at around 11:15am: ——————– Session Expired/Timeout Due to user inactivity, your GWDG – EMAIL session has expired. Click the following link to start a new session. Start a new … Read more

Warning: Spam-Mail im Umlauf, 02.02.2017

Message-Id: 201702021340 Time: 02.02.2017, 13:40 Uhr Affected: All users of the Max Planck Society Impact: Logon credentials may get spied There are Spam Mails circulating. Please ignore and delete! AUFMERKSAMKEIT!!! Beachten Sie diese wichtige Aktualisierung, dass unsere neue Webmail mit einem neuen Messaging-System von MPG verbessert wurde, das auch eine schnellere Nutzung von E-Mails, freigegebenen Kalender, … Read more

Warning: Phishingmail circulating

Message-Id: 201610129000 Time: 10/11/2016 – 9:30pm Affected: Users with mailboxes Impact: Delivery of a phishing message Unfortunately, the following phishing e-mail was delivered yesterday to some of our users: ——————– GWDG Ihr Postfach ist Fast Voll und Veraltet. 1.93GB 2.01GB GWDG E-Mail Messaging Center für alle unsere E-Mail-Konto Benutzer ****@gwdg.de. Derzeit eine web Seite Wartung durch Universität für … Read more

Information: Disclosure of a critical Windows Security Problem on April 12th, 2016

Message-No: 201604061710 Time:  April 12th, 2016 Affected: GWDG Services based on Windows  and Samba Servers Impact: Possibly brief Interruptions A developer of the open source software Samba has discovered a critical security vulnerability in Windows operating systems and the Samba software itself, which will be disclosed on April 12th, 2016, together with appropriate software fixes … Read more

Messages in Security category appear very rarely in english

Messages in this category appear very rarely in english. But if you are fine with the German language, you can book the german feed instead: https://info.gwdg.de/news/alle/sicherheit/feed or read the german category page: https://info.gwdg.de/news/alle/sicherheit/

Warning: printers are currently abused

Message-Id: 201512161600 Time: 16.12.2015, 16:00 Affected: Printers within the IP range of 134.76.0.0/16 Impact: Hundreds of pages are printed full of nonsense Currently printers in the University of Göttingen are attacked: A user “admin” sends printjobs named “5MB.bin” to many printers within the University of Göttingen. This file contains unprintable data. So the printer prints hundreds of pages full … Read more