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email messages requesting personal information such as passwords.
Please do not respond to these types of messages. Please delete these
messages.
Fordham IT will never ask for usernames, passwords, SSNs, FIDNs, or any
other personally identifiable information (known as PII), via email.
We are in the process of developing a website to better inform the
community about electronic security awareness and to keep everyone
up-to-date on these types of phishing and or spam attacks. Additional
Information will be communicated in the next couple of weeks as we finalize
the web content.
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Fordham IT’s standing maintenance window is every Thursday and Friday from
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Katherine S Egan
Executive Director, Strategic Program Office
Fordham University Fordham IT
email: kegan@fordham.edu
http://www.fordham.edu/ITNews
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