CI's campus network upgrade is approximately 50% complete and on schedule. This week's work included the upgrade of most academic buildings on the main campus. Next week's work will focus on administrative and facilities-related buildings and infrastructure.

The current schedule and real-time status updates can be viewed in this Google Sheet.

Any remaining issues encountered after a building has been migrated should be reported to the T&C Help Desk at 805-437-8552 or by email at helpdesk@csuci.edu.

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One of the hot identity theft scams is submission of false tax returns in order to receive unearned or earned refunds. The IRS has a process to try and detect these false returns. If they suspect a false return they will mail a letter to the address the taxpayer listed in their previous year return. The IRS letter directs the taxpayer to visit an IRS site to verify the tax return submitted. Legitimate letters should direct taxpayers to idverify.irs.gov. More details are contained in this link:http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/Taxpayers-Receiving-Identity-Verification-Letter-Should-Use-IDVerifyirsgov.

The IRS also has a great website page detailing active tax scams: http://www.irs.gov/uac/Tax-Scams-Consumer-Alerts.

If taxpayers suspect they are a victim of tax fraud/identity theft, they should contact the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 1-800-366-4484 or via the web at:http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml

Taxpayers can forward scam emails to phishing@irs.gov.

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CI's campus network upgrade has been underway since 5am on Monday morning. T&C infrastructure team members have been working with AT&Ts engineers to complete the upgrade of buildings according to the implementation schedule.

The current schedule and real-time status updates can be viewed in this Google Sheet.

Once T&C infrastructure staff are satisfied that a building has been completed, signs will be posted at the entrances of each building informing users informing users of the completion.

Any remaining issues encountered after a building has been migrated should be reported to the T&C Help Desk at 805-437-8552 or by email at helpdesk@csuci.edu.

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After many months of planning, the campus is less than two weeks away from faster, stronger Internet access as the Technology Infrastructure team will be visiting each building over a span of 11 days to upgrade network connectivity.

During the planned upgrades, campus telephones, Internet access, wireless connectivity, and network connectivity for myCI, PeopleSoft, CI Learn, CI Records, CI Financials, CI Docs, CI Sync, etc. will not be available. Additionally, access to the campus wireless network from a different building than your own may not be available due to certain resources being bound to your location/workstation.

The upgrade process begins March 16 at Sage Hall and will continue through March 31. Installation in each building will take approximately four hours. You can review the planned schedule here to verify your building’s planned upgrade.

Ultimately, wireless access speeds will increase by 2 times, while wired access will increase by 10 times.

For more information, go to www.csuci.edu/tc or email questions to Herb Aquino, Manager of Technology Infrastructure at herb.aquino@csuci.edu

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Adobe is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2015-0310 exists in the wild, which is being used in attacks against older versions of Flash Player. Additionally, Adobe is investigating reports that a separate exploit for Flash Player 16.0.0.287 and earlier also exists in the wild. For the latest information, please refer to the PSIRT blog here.  You may find more information about the Adobe Security Bulletin here.

Mac

1. On the Firefox tool bar go to Tools 
2. Select Add-ons 
3. In the Plugins tab, set Shockwave Flash to Never Activate 

1. On the Safari tool bar go to Safari > Preferences… 
2. In the Security tab, ensure Allow Plug-ins is checked 
3. Click on the Manage Website Settings… button 
4. Select Adobe Flash Player 
5. In the dropdown, select When visiting other websites: Block 
6. Click on the Done button 
7. Close the Preferences dialog box 

1. Type chrome:plugins in the address bar to open the Plug-ins page 
2. On the Plug-ins page that appears, find Adobe Flash Player 
3. Click the Disable ​link under its name 

Windows

1. Go to the Firefox menu button 
2. Select Add-ons 
3. In the Plugins tab, set Shockwave Flash to Never Activate 

1. Click the Tools button, and then click Manage add-ons 
2. Under Show, click All add-ons, and then select Shockwave Flash Object 
3. Click Disable, and then click Close 

1. Type chrome:plugins in the address bar to open the Plug-ins page 
2. On the Plug-ins page that appears, find Adobe Flash Player 
3. Click the Disable ​link under its name

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An email with the subject “important” tells recipients that they must sign into Dropbox in order to view a document too big to be sent via regular email, but clicking on the link included in the message brings people to a fake Dropbox login page that is actually hosted on Dropbox. 

Link to the rest of this SC Magazine article to find out more about this new scam.

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