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The UFV Cybersecurity team has been made aware of a social engineering scam targeting UFV employees and students. This scam attempts to gain access to your employee or student account. The scam typically starts with a phishing email that asks you to scan a QR code to re-authenticate and verify your MFA or 2FA. Once … Read more
The UFV Cybersecurity team has been made aware of a social engineering scam targeting UFV employees and students. This scam attempts to gain access to your employee or student account. The scam typically starts with a phishing email that links to a Google Form; it asks for your password, phone number, and sometimes other personal … Read more
UFV employees may receive a message indicating their Adobe Acrobat license has expired. IT Services has recently completed a license renewal with Adobe, and our vendor is working quickly to resolve our expiration notice. Who is impacted? UFV employees using Adobe applications. What do I need to do? No further action is required at this … Read more
IT Services will be completing required maintenance that will cause an outage to UFV applications, website and network & telephone services across all campuses. Users will experience a disruption for up to 30 minutes during the outage window. When will this occur? Saturday, August 26 2023, between 8:00pm – 11:59pm. Who is impacted? All users … Read more
What do I need to know? Significant power and IT outages are scheduled for this Saturday, August 19. Where and when? Power outage: Electricity will be shut down to Abbotsford Buildings G and H (Lá:lem te Baker) between 8 am and 12 noon Sat, Aug 19. IT outage: IT services will be suspended on all … Read more
Eduroam and Event wireless service interruptions this morning on the Abbotsford Campus have necessitated the need for an emergency reboot of the wireless controllers. There will be an Eduroam/Events wi-fi outage on the Abbotsford Campus between 12pm and 2pm. CEP and other remote campuses will not be impacted. This will impact all student, employee, guest … Read more
IT Cyber Security is dedicated to continuously improving and securing all UFV workstations. For continual protection of devices from major threats, it is important to control the use of commonly exploited applications used on the UFV devices. Many such applications do not require local admin rights to install and run, hence can be easily exploited … Read more
What do I need to know? IT Services will be completing a scheduled improvement upgrade on Thursday, August 3rd, 2023, from 6:00 am to 10:00 am, which will disrupt service for T4/myweb editors. When will this occur? Thursday, August 3rd, 2023, between 6:00 am and 10:00 am. Who is impacted? Editors of Terminal4/myweb. This outage will … Read more
The UFV Cybersecurity team has been made aware of a social engineering scam targeting UFV employees and students. This scam attempts to gain access to your employee or student account. The scam typically starts with a phishing email that links to a Google Form; it asks for your password, phone number, and sometimes other personal … Read more
IT Services will be completing a scheduled improvement on Thursday, July 27th, 2023, that will result in the following change to the BDMS, Banner Document Management System: Log on change: employees will now access BMDS using their UFV email address. By changing our log-on procedure from using a network login to your email login users … Read more