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The most recent ITS Alerts affecting E-mail (spam, phishing) are listed below and are also published via the E-mail (spam, phishing) Alerts RSS feed. In addition to the alerts below, a continuously updated list of the latest virus threats is provided on the right side of this page.

green boxResolved: Power Problem Affecting Some ITS Services

Last updated on April 21, 2008 at 06:01:46 PM

The search engine service has been fully restored as of 4:53 p.m.

green boxProblem with e-mail spam filter this morning, April, 17, 2008

Last updated on April 17, 2008 at 10:29:06 AM

Between 8:00 a.m. and 9:35 a.m. this morning (4/17/08)there was a configuration problem with the new Spamhaus spam filter. This caused some e-mail that was sent to PSU email addresses...read more

green boxPenn State to Enhance Current Anti-Spam Efforts

Last updated on April 11, 2008 at 02:02:27 PM

On April 17, 2008, during the regularly scheduled maintenance window (5:00 - 7:00 a.m.), Information Technology Services (ITS) will begin blocking incoming mail (with the recipient address format as read more

green boxResolved: Bogus/phishing e-mail messages sent to Penn State addresses

Last updated on March 21, 2008 at 04:47:51 PM

Superseded by March 21, 2008 Alert - Targeted password phishing continues

red boxTargeted password phishing continues

Last updated on March 21, 2008 at 04:42:59 PM

Bogus E-mail messages claiming to be from Penn State IT offices continue to be sent on an almost daily basis from spammers overseas, and are likely to continue for the...read more

green boxResolved: PSU phishing scam

Last updated on October 25, 2007 at 03:11:14 PM

The source ISP was blocked from sending to Penn State's mail servers on October 19. Individual alerts were sent to the approximately 1900 recipients by the SOS office, out of...read more

green boxResolved: Fake Internet Greeting Postcards Pose Threat

Last updated on September 15, 2007 at 05:40:41 PM

Information Technology Services is warning Penn State faculty, staff and students about the recent increase in fake Internet greeting postcards delivered by e-mail. These postcards contain a link in the...read more

green boxResolved: Penn State Continues to Combat Spam

Last updated on September 5, 2007 at 08:03:20 AM

On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, Information Technology Services (ITS) will implement a modified form of greylisting on Penn State's primary incoming psu.edu e-mail servers in order to reduce the amount...read more

green boxResolved: LISTSERV Mail Delayed

Last updated on June 25, 2007 at 04:51:13 PM

Some LISTSERV mail has been delayed since yesterday as there was a denial of service attack from a spammer that we have resolved. While the attack is no longer happening,...read more

green boxResolved: Listserv Slowness

Last updated on April 20, 2007 at 01:48:03 PM

The e-mail back logs to listserv cleared up as of 8:00 PM on Wed, Apr 18.

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