[Micronet] [Announce] MIcronet lists being migrated to Google Groups *now*

[Aron Roberts]

  Vivian Sophia, Ian Crew, and I are just about to initiate the migration
of the Micronet and MIcronet-Announce lists to Google Groups.

  You may want to hold off on sending email to these lists until the
migrations are done. :) We expect that the migrations will be done no later
than 2:45 pm; will send a notification when this completes.

Aron Roberts
Research IT
(on behalf of Vivian and Ian)
 
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Re: [Micronet] [Announce] Update on mailing list migrations

[Ian Crew]

Hi all:

Just to follow up on this/close this out, it turns out Mike had a browser 
window open with his personal Gmail account, not his Berkeley one.  Once he 
switched to his Berkeley account, the Groups showed up fine.

Cheers,

Ian

> On Apr 28, 2016, at 9:53 PM, Mike Friedman  wrote:
> 
> On 2016-04-28 10:17, Ian Crew wrote:
>> Hi Micronet,
>> 
>> We've sent communications to 2,477 mailing list owners of active 
>> @lists.berkeley.edu  mailing lists. Together 
>> with CSS-IT service desk we are monitoring support requests coming in. As of 
>> 10:00am there have been 441 lists migrated and 29 new lists created.
>> 
>> As a reminder, see the bConnected Lists page 
>>  
>> for all the information about migrating your lists to Google, and using your 
>> lists on Google Groups.
> 
> Ian,
> 
> I have just completed following the migration instructions for my CalMail 
> lists.  Apparently the lists were successfully migrated. Now I want to 
> continue configuring my list settings, but when I go to "Manage Your 
> bConnected Lists", I eventually wind up on a page that's supposed to be a 
> list of my "groups", but no groups (or lists) are shown.  So how can I 
> proceed with my list configuration?  (In fact, I don't know anything about 
> "groups", since they didn't exist for me in CalMail).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Mike
> 
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> Mike Friedman
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> http://mikefberkeley.com 
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[Micronet] For Friday afternoon...

[Graham Patterson]

It is Friday afternoon where this is posted.

http://chrisoldwood.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/stand-up-and-deliver.html

(That's 'chrisoldwood.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/stand-up-and-deliver.html'
8-) )



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[Micronet] Spoofing and Phishing

[Charles James]

Hi, Netters:

In recent times I have received, as I am sure you have as well, emails 
that are either ours but sent by third outside parties such as for 
survey's, etc., or from us but have links imbedded. It occurs to me, as 
a novice nobody, that even if the emails are legitimate sending them out 
with links makes it impossible to determine with reasonableness whether 
they are real or memorax. I often, out of security and caution since I 
access servers for my work and link to external drives for work just 
delete them even when I send them to security for evaluation and 
validation. It is just too easy to make them look so legit, so real, and 
so possibly dangerous that it is not worth it to just take a campus 
survey or some other prompt by campus management or the nefarious 
predators lurking around and waiting patiently for just one of us to 
"click that link."


The issue from my desk is exacerbated by, first security often defers to 
the originator such as HR for surveys, etc. and second when often I make 
contact the response is so ambiguous  I still just delete the thing. 
Yes, I am a bit more security conscious or paranoid especially after 
reading up, I do this often, on future crimes in the electronic world 
titled, "Future Crimes", by Marc Goodman but even it his predictions are 
only half or one-third accurate it exposes us to grave harm, etc.


Example: Today a security notice was sent regarding the Locky Ransomware 
but it was filled with links to click. Now, it really is legit but then 
again, "Is it?" I often recommend to folks who I work with and ask, 
"Don't embed the links, remove the https:// and just put in the address 
with a parens saying, (Copy and Paste the link into your browser to 
view, don't click it), because as good as the predators out there are 
getting and the sneaky way they work it is very reasonable and possible 
that such emails are spoofed or can be spoofed making those of us who 
access servers remotely and connect to external drives opens the door to 
bad, bad things.


Is this reasonable or am I just paranoid? Why do we, the most advanced 
and intelligent IT professionals around, still use spoof-able emails to 
convey information and take surveys and provide security 
recommendations, etc., using the very same processes the predators use, 
we should be able to do better, right? I really want to know.


Respectfully Submitted,

Charles

p.s. If you click-it, they will come!

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