The Ohio State University accounts are being targeting in an increasing number of phishing attempts. Bad actors who send these campaigns often try to get login credentials to gain access to account details, and thus Ohio State’s internal systems and protected information. Last month, there were more than 63,000 credential threat attempts targeting faculty, staff and student email inboxes. While the university’s security systems monitor users’ accounts 24/7 and blocks most of these attempts, a small percentage gets through.
Protecting the data entrusted to Ohio State is the responsibility of everyone at the university. Beginning June 1, 2022, all faculty, staff, and students will be able to encrypt external email messages using Proofpoint. The university previously used Zix for email...
For improved security related to emails received from senders outside of the university, the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation is enabling two new email security features on Monday, March 14 . Emails received from senders outside of the universiry will display an email warning banner--a visual indicator added to the top of email messages that provides additional context to the origination or safety of the sender. Additionally, enhancements have been made to the University Email Attachment Filter.
If you are using an older email client or web browser you may have to update it before this Thursday, Oct. 15. Microsoft is no longer supporting older web browsers or email clients because of security vulnerabilities.
Making this change may sound technical, but it may not affect you if...
As part of our Office 365 Transformation Roadmap , we are implementing email improvements throughout the current academic year. An update on January 31 will impact the look of the screens you see when logging into...
Microsoft is making changes over the next several months that will affect users that access Outlook on the Web (OWA). Here's a summary:
Non-Supported Browsers Will Have Reduced Functionality in Outlook on the Web: Beginning August 8, Microsoft is making changes that may cause users to...
Over the last few weeks, an email entitled, "The Ohio State University (JOB REFERRAL): Employment Opportunity!" was reported to Report Phish by Ohio State users more than 1800 times! As spammers and phishers get more sophisticated it becomes more difficult to block them all, but we have some...
Now that Microsoft has corrected email list functionality, we are turning our attention to relicensing and rebuilding all faculty, staff, students, and alumni email accounts in Office 365.
Why Relicense and Rebuild?
We must rebuild our accounts to accommodate changes Microsoft is making...
Ohio State is in the process of migrating our email accounts from local servers to Exchange Online from Microsoft. Exchange Online will increase email storage, simplify integration with other MS Office services and improve stewardship of our resources by leveraging the high-quality cloud...
We wanted to alert faculty and staff about a problem that some university users are having sending email to users with @osumc.edu email addresses. The issue resulted from a configuration change that was necessary to support the long-term roadmap of the email system, but caused some medical...
