Tygerberg users victim of phone scam

We don't have to tell you our world is an unsafe place, especially after
the past few weeks. When it comes to our own security, we take extreme measures to keep ourselves and our families safe and sound. The same
can't be said for the information protecting our identities and therefore
also our safety.

The start of this week was a telling example when SU staff and students
received an e-mail posing as a seemingly legitimate request from the IT department for users' passwords. A large group replied without
hesitation to the phishing e-mail and even more replied to the actual
warning e-mail we sent out and e-mailed their passwords to us.

We cannot stress this enough, NEVER reply to an e-mail supplying your
username and password. More info on this and other safety tips in this
week's issue.

Tech greetings, The IT crowd

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GREEN IT

SECURITY

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GENERAL

CAUGHT PHISHING?

If you receive an e-mail claiming to be from the SU IT department, do not open or click on any of the links or reply to it. The e-mail attempts to gain access to university accounts using the sun.ac.za details that looks initially genuine.

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BEWARE OF SIM CARD SWAP FRAUD

Although it is an known scam, when it hits one of your colleagues, it makes you aware that there are very real dangers out there. A SIM card swap fraud occurs when criminals obtain and utilise a replacement SIM card to acquire security messages and one-time passwords (OTP) sent to you by the bank.

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TWITTER TARGETED BY HACKERS

As no doubt some of you are aware, within the last few weeks, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal in the United States have had breaches of their systems by Chinese-based hackers. Also recently Twitter reported that approximately 250 000 Twitter accounts were compromised by the same attackers.

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KEEP YOUR CELL PHONE SECURE

These days your smartphone is just as powerful as your laptop or pc a few years back. You store more personal and work information on your device and it's always connected to the internet.

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TYGERBERG USERS VICTIM OF PHONE SCAM

A new phone scam on Tygerberg attracted our attention this week and the possibility exists that it might spread other campusses. Please be aware of this scam that has left some victims hundreds of rands out of pocket.

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