IT Services Conducting Live Anti-Phishing Test for Exchange

The university is in the process of evaluating anti-spam and anti-phishing technology for the Exchange environment. IT Services will conduct live testing over the next two weeks, starting Wednesday, November 6.

During testing, suspicious links within email messages coming from non-uark.edu accounts will be tracked by a filtering system. This tracking protects users from malicious websites by scanning links and changing the URLs before being routed to recipients. If the product being tested works as expected, malicious links will be blocked and safe links will work as intended.

The University of Arkansas has recently been under attack from those attempting to trick users into giving away usernames and passwords that are used to distribute tens of thousands of spam messages, commit identity theft, etc.

This change will not cause any disruption to services, and the new filtering process will not be used to track the Web browsing habits of UARK users. For comments, questions or concerns, contact the Security Team at security@uark.edu.

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