Seminary Computing Services

In an attempt to block unwanted emails from being delivered to your inbox, Earlham College has implemented a system known as the Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall. Barracuda operates on a point system, meaning that it analyzes each email that passes through the system and quarantines those that match enough criteria points to be considered spam. Sometimes though, Barracuda will catch emails that are not spam.

Whitehouse.gov has converted their site to Drupal! Drupal is a CMS (content management system) that has been gaining in popularity over the past couple of years. Currently, all seminary websites (TWIC, SCS, ESR, Bethany) are Drupal sites. Here's a fun article about how the President's IT staff is utilizing Drupal.

http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/whitehousegov-goes-drupal 

Two more attempts have been launched to trick users into submitting their account information under the threat of losing access to their email accounts. It is important to remember that neither SCS or ECS will ever ask users for their account information through an email. If you have responded to either of these two emails you should contact the SCS helpdesk at (765) 983-1568 and we'll make sure your account hasn't been compromised.

Automatic forwarding of @earlham.edu and @bethanyseminary.edu mail is still broken in WebMail, so we've added more instructions for retrieving your mail with Yahoo and GMail accounts. Enjoy!

Update: This issue appears to be solved - contact us if you're still having trouble.

Another variation on an Earlham-targeted scam; this one even tries to abuse the name of the real Silpakorn University. Comments are in bold.

Another email scam - comments are in bold.

Neither Seminary Computing Services nor Earlham Computing Services will ever ask you to send your password via email.If you have sent your password in response to a message claiming to be from us (see some samples), then you should assume that you have been "phished", and you need to begin taking steps to protect not only your email and Moodle accounts, but also your electronic identity.

Since the recent server upgrade, we are using the latest version of Moodle (1.9). As always, there have been many behind-the-scenes fixes and performance enhancements, but there are also several new features worth mentioning.