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August 14, 2013 Phishing Report

August 14th, 2013

The following phish email was received claiming a reset of a non-existent message center database that requests the user validate their luc.edu mailbox Begin forwarded message: From: Date: August 13, 2013, 6:17:38 PM CDT To: undisclosed-recipients:; Dear Luc.edu Email User, Due to database maintenance equipment that is happening in our Luc.edu email message center. Our […]


Latest Phishing Email Subj: Help Desk

July 25th, 2018

Here is the latest phish.  This email is not from Loyola ITS.  If you see it in your mailbox please delete it. From: Gomez Illanes Paulina Andrea Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 6:44 PM Subject: Help Desk   *****@luc.edu We’re moving all email accounts to the new 2018 web application. Update your email account below […]


Dog Walker Phish

August 3rd, 2018

Students, Faculty and Staff should be wary of an email that purportedly comes from a Loyola student looking for someone to walk her uncle’s dog for $300.00 a week. Although there is nothing malicious in the email, if you reply to the email address in the body of the email, they will contact you and […]


Mandatory HIPAA Training for Staff

August 10th, 2018

The University has implemented required HIPAA training as part of our efforts to remain in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The annual HIPAA compliance efforts are designed to ensure that we protect the PHI of all individuals and to prevent that information from being used in any manner detrimental to […]


Mandatory HIPAA Training for Staff

August 10th, 2018

Reminder:  Mandatory HIPAA Training for all full-time Staff is currently in progress and must be completed by 8/31.  Check your email, which was sent last week,  for your assigned tool (SANS or CITI) and instructions on how to complete.


HIPAA Training Reminder

August 17th, 2018

Reminder: Mandatory HIPAA training for full-time staff is due by 8/31. Reminders were sent today to staff who have not yet completed their training.


“No Subject” Phishing Scam September 20, 2018

September 20th, 2018

Here is the latest phish. One thing to remember is that Loyola does not use weebly for any administrative functions and will not contact you about the size of your mailbox. Dear Luc Customer, Your mailbox size has reached 18.35 disk size, which is over 97% of your quota, Please expand your bandwidth before it […]


Latest SCAM – Part time Personal assistant Needed to work from home.Pay is $500 bi weekly.

August 30th, 2018

Students, Faculty and Staff should be wary of an email that purportedly comes from a Loyola student looking for someone to be her uncle’s part time “personal assistant” for $500.00 a week. Although there is nothing malicious in the email, if you reply to the email address in the body of the email, they will […]


Latest Phish

May 26th, 2017

There is a new phish circulating this morning that uses bit.ly to direct you to a web site that will ask for your credentials.  A sample is below.  Remember no one at Loyola will ever send you an email that threatens to disable your account while asking you to “log in to verify” your credentials. […]


6/5/17 Phishing Scam

June 5th, 2017

This is the latest phishing scam. This is yet another in a series of emails from scammers trying to get your UVID and password. From: Date: Jun 2, 2017 3:20 PM Subject: ITS Alert: E-mail account verification To: Cc: ——————————– Request Confirmation: 65189W5G64H2 ——————————– Date: 06/02/2017 ——————————– Your account has been queued for deletion following […]