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Tag: malware

Phishing for your GROUPON account

July 21, 2016 David Olds

Now phishing has moved into voucher marketing. I received this email yesterday from “GROUPN” [sic], clearly suspicious … so I dug…

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Posted in: IT Filed under: Email, malicious, malware, Phishing, Spam

xCodeGhost – all your iOS belong to us

February 2, 2016 David Olds

Okay this isn’t a new story – it broke back in September 2015, but we had a couple of students…

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Posted in: IT Filed under: Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, malware

UPDATE – Malicious email attachments in Oxford

November 10, 2015 David Olds

Further to my email of Friday 6 November 2015 at 10pm http://it.queens.ox.ac.uk/2015/11/06/malware-infections-spreadsheet-attachments-in-emails/ IT Services declared a major incident yesterday (Monday…

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Posted in: IT Filed under: attachments, Email, excel, infection, malicious, malware, virus, Windows, word

Start of Hilary Term Message from the IT Office

January 24, 2014 David Olds

Dear Queen’s Undergraduates, Executive Summary Do not read at your peril Liquid spills Hard drive failure Malware and viruses DO…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: breakdown, hard disk, Hilary, Liquid, malware, spills, viruses

Flashback and older versions of Apple Mac OS X

April 16, 2012 David Olds

It appears that many users who have been caught out with Flashback trojan are running Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Apple, Flashback, Java, Leopard, malware, Tiger, Trojan

Flashback Trojan – Malware now available

April 12, 2012 David Olds

APPLE MAC USERS BEWARE You may have read recently in the media that over 650,000 Apple Macs are now thought…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Apple, Flashback, mac, malware, Trojan, virus

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