ITS gives advice to faculty, staff on staying out of phishers' nets

In recent weeks, University of Iowa faculty and staff have opened their e-mail inboxes to find a message purportedly sent by a University of Iowa support team. The message claims that a database upgrade is under way, and in order to avoid deletion of e-mail accounts, the recipient must send his or her username, password, date of birth, and country or territory.

This is to “phishing” what a shiny lure or juicy worm is to fishing.

The e-mail from UIOWA Support is not legitimate—the Information Technology Services (ITS) department at the University will never request that a UI employee send his or her Hawk ID password via e-mail. As these attacks continue to infiltrate inboxes, ITS is seeking to keep fellow UI employees off the hook of identity thieves by offering advice on ways to avoid phishing scams.

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Belin-Blank Center marks 20 years of service to gifted education

At 34, Katie Porter is an associate professor in the University of Iowa College of Law and a nationally recognized expert on bankruptcy law. Some 20 years earlier, Porter was an Iowa farm girl from a small community south of Winterset, participating in the initial Iowa Governor’s Institute for the Gifted and Talented in 1988.

Porter credits her involvement with the institute—a two-week residential program administered by the University of Iowa Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development—as a critical part of her current success

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News in brief

AROUND CAMPUS…

• Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women to Be Held April 9
• Improving Our Workplace Award winners announced
• Folsom featured in Walt Whitman documentary; will air April 14 on PBS
• UI writing programs help doctoral student in Iraq
• Pulitzer Prize-winner, former U.S. Poet Laureate Glück will read April 9
• University of Iowa professionals receive ADDY Awards
• Retirement resource now online
• See which Learning and Development courses are right for you

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DISCOVERIES…

• Soot found to play larger role in global warming than previously thought
• Advances made in fructose intolerance recognition and research

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TRANSITIONS…

• UI President Mason names Loh new executive vice president, provost
• Recent deaths

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Audio slide show: Glassblower Peter Hatch reflects on his work

When glass equipment cracks in the Chemistry Building, there is no panic. With decades of experience as a glassblower, Peter Hatch heats up his flame, and everything's cool. Beakers are fixed, tubes are made like new. Hatch visited with fyi while working at his shop, talking about his career choice and his favorite aspects of the job.

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