IT Facilities for Staff

Synchronise your Windows Mobile Smartphone, iPhone or PDA with the ESE Oracle Calendar

From now it is possible to synchronise your Windows Mobile Smartphone, iPhone or PDA "over the air" with the ESE Oracle Calendar. This means that the calendar in your smartphone can be synchronised from anywhere, if you are connected to the internet (e.g. through Wi-Fi, GRPS or UMTS).

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Reminders

Nightly Software Maintenance

Please always log off at the end of the day (do NOT Shutdown but leave the computer connected to the network). Logged off computers automatically go into powersave mode. This will enable our nightly software maintenance procedures to be processed.

Phishing messages
The number of phishing attempts has increased dramatically, with phishing messages being sent to university E-mail addresses almost on a daily basis. DO NOT REPLY to such messages, just ignore and delete them.

Phishing is a form of fraud. Criminals use the internet to gain possession of personal information of third parties by means of phishing. They deceive you with E-mails and websites which look like those of well-known, reliable companies. But in reality they are forgeries. In the E-mails and on the websites they ask you for your login details, credit card information and/or your social security number.

Fraudsters are very inventive. It can be very difficult to distinguish phishing from an authentic E-mail:

• Phishing attempts usually include an urgent request for personal information. Above all they want you to respond quickly. The fraudsters say that you will miss out on a special offer or that your account will expire if you do not respond quickly.
• Spelling errors and a careless writing style are difficult to conceal. The more careless the text is in a commercial E-mail, the more likely it is that you are dealing with phishing.
• In a phishing attempt you are not addressed personally, whereas you are in a legitimate E-mail from your bank, for example.
  

Neither the Erasmus University Rotterdam nor the ICT-ESE Helpdesk will ever ask for a password to be sent by email. DO NOT respond to these kind of requests. If you did respond to such an email and provided your password, please change your email password (and any other account that uses the same password) immediately.