September 2007 IT News

2007 Qwest DEX White and Yellow Pages Delivery

University of Utah Hospital and SOM Administrators may pick up Qwest DEX White and Yellow Pages telephone books at the entrance to the Pavilion hallway on ‘A level’ (east of patient elevators) as early as Tuesday morning, September 11, 2007. The telephone books will be available for about a week or until gone; hurry on down.

Campus departments will have the Qwest DEX telephone books delivered directly to their building as early as Monday, September 10, 2007.

CD-ROMs on order will arrive through October 2007.

PLEASE HELP US RECYCLE!

HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER – This week bring old telephone books to the designated pick-up area in the Pavilion hallway and place on recycling cart. Through September, place old telephone books in main soiled utility rooms next to elevators or in the hallway outside your department’s main office door.

CAMPUS - Place old telephone books inside recycling bins with red ‘MIXED PAPER’ labels in your building.

UPPER CAMPUS – Speak with the custodial crew leader in your building regarding placement location for the old telephone books.

HERITAGE COMMONS – Place old telephone books in the recycling bin next to Bldg 822.

UNIVERSITY STUDENT APARTMENTS – Place old telephone books in the West Village recycling bin by main office.

RESEARCH PARK – Place old telephone books in the recycling bin in the parking lot of 606 Black Hawk Way (between Arapeen Drive and Komas Drive).

If you have any questions or concerns, call Robin Horton with the Office of Information Technology at 585-7205.

THANK YOU!

College & Department Phone Info Now Available

There have been many requests for telephone information for University of Utah colleges and departments in a printed format. There is now a downloadable version of the department and college telephone information found in the Qwest DEX White Pages for Sept 07 - Sept 08. It is a PDF document with bookmarks and is searchable. Of course, this information is only accurate the day it was submitted. The Office of Information Technology is working on a directory project to make the online Campus Directory easier to search and more up to date.

You can find and download the PDF from the Campus Directory Employee/Department search page: (look for the information in red toward the bottom of the page), or at http://www.acs.utah.edu/acs/forms/DeptList.pdf.

Note: the following is the second of new regular security articles from the U's Information Security Office.

Email Attachments

Email attachments are a major vector of virus and worm propagation. All attachments should be considered suspicious, even from someone you know.

Case in point: Your trusted friend Duddley Do-Right received an email about his need to update a given software package, and he visited the webpage and downloaded the patch. However, Duddley didn't know about "HTML Obfuscated Redirections" (see last month's article), and became infected. But this infection is different. This one sends a message to everyone in Duddley's address book, with the Subject: "Tragedy on I-15." The message contains an attachment that when downloaded, does the same thing that happened to Duddley's address book, but when it's done ... deletes everything on your disc.

Does this sound far fetched? Situations like this have already taken place.

Asking the following questions will help you protect yourself:
   A) Do you know the person who sent the message with attachment?
   B) Has this person sent you email before?
   C) Were you expecting the email with the attachment?
   D) Does the Subject line conform to what you expect from the sender?
   E) Does the email and associated attachment contain a virus?

The bottom line: if you get an attachment, it is recommended that you verify before opening that you:
   1) Know the sender.
   2) Are expecting the attachment.
   3) Check for any viruses.

For security-related issues and information, the Information Security Office invites you to visit:
<http://iso.utah.edu/security/>