Spear phishing attempt is a carefully crafted personalized email that is usually sent with an attachment or requests a response. The fraudster then tries to entice the recipient to open the infected attachment or respond with personal information.

We have reports from faculty and staff who have been recipients of a new twist on an old e-mail scam. These phishing scams often come from a non-UCLA email address with poor spelling/grammar.

You should never click a link or call back the number from an unexpected delivery notice.

UCLA Information Security Office is aware of UCLA students being targeted by fake job offer scams.

ITS would like to make you aware of a planned voice router replacement scheduled for Sunday, March 6, 2022, from 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. The voice router's current hardware and software within one of ITS' primary service locations must be replaced before it reaches End of Service (EoS)/End of Life (EoL), in order to continue to provide reliable voice services. 

Wednesday afternoon, many employees received an email with the subject line “A new version of Burst report is available” along with an attached document. We can assure you that this was not a cyberattack but the result of a mistake during the testing of a new report distribution.

The Systems Programming team will be upgrading the Mainframe's Operating System from z/OS 2.3 to  z/OS 2.4. Implementation is set for 02/06/2022 from 2:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.