IT Leadership Announced

Congratulations to the new IT leadership! Mark Clements, Interim Chief Information Officer Victor Alatorre, Chief Technical Officer Laura Knaapen, Deputy Chief Information Officer Looking forward to what the future will bring to IT at UW...

Information Security Training

All employees are required to complete annual online security training.  An email was sent by Lawroom on October 18th with instructions on how to log in and get started.  If you did not receive the email message, simply log into Lawroom...

Extortion Emails

Scammers are taking advantage of a recently posted list of usernames and passwords from hacked websites in an attempt to extort money from the victims of the hack. The scam email sends you your password from the hacked site with a message that claims that the scammer...

Third-party password database made public

A database of almost 42 million usernames and passwords was recently posted to a public site on the Internet.   The information security site BleepingComputer.com reports that the database was uploaded to kayo.moe and is publicly available...

Watch for ‘work from home’ scam!

Please be aware of an ongoing email-based scam that is affecting UWO employees and students.  A criminal or group of criminals are posing as a doctor or other professional who is in need of a personal assistant.  The emails are well written and very convincing. When a...

Welcome (Back) to Campus!

Welcome and Welcome Back students and instructors! New students – beware and be wary of emails making job offers or asking for your passwords. These are scams. Returning students – if it has been 180 days since you changed your NetID password, you will be...