Verify ITS Emails to the Mines Community
Beginning Aug 1, 2019, this page — https://it.mines.edu/verify — is now the official address to verify email messages apparently originating from IT. Please bookmark this address.
IT news and outage notifications are also found on our homepage, https://it.mines.edu/.
RECURRING ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Okta Activation [18-Mar-2023 and recurring thereafter]
- Mines Cyber-Security Training Reminder: Student, Faculty/Staff [8-APR-2021 until training completed]
- Mines Cyber-Security Training Reminder [24-MAR-2021 until training completed]
- Upcoming Mines Password Expiration [20-MAY-2024 and recurring thereafter]
- Upcoming Special Mines Password Expiration [20-MAY-2024 and recurring thereafter]
LATEST ANNOUNCEMENTS
- New Duo Prompt in Okta Tomorrow, June 7th [6-Jun-2023]
- Degraded Performance with Email and Microsoft Teams [5-Jun-2023]
- Workday and Legacy Systems [31-May-2023]
- New Duo Prompt in Okta June 7th [22-May-2023]
- New Version of Global Protect (VPN) [20-May-2023]
- Active Email Phishing Campaign [11-May-2023]
- New Mines Wireless Network [9-May-2023]
- Duo 30-day Remembrance [28-Apr-2023]
- Okta is Live! [18-Mar-2023]
- Okta Go-Live This Weekend! [17-Mar-2023]
- Okta Go-Live: What to Expect [10-Mar-2023]
- Single Sign-On/New Trailhead Go Live [3-Mar-2023]
- New Single Sign-on (SSO) Tool Coming [30-Jan-2023]
- Guest Wireless Network Change [5-Jan-2023]
- Submit Grades Directly from Canvas into Banner (sent to faculty) [3-Oct-2022]
- DUO MFA 30-day Remembrance [27-Sep-2022]
- Mines Windows Computer Screensaver Change (sent to Cognos Users group) [28-Jul-2022]
- Zoom Accounts and Mines Single Sign-On (SSO) [12-Jul-2022]
- February Cybersecurity Awareness Training Notice [7-Feb-2022]
- Mines January Phish Training [1-Feb-2022]
- Log4jshell Vulnerability Update [5-Jan-2022]
CURRENT ‘PHISHING’ ATTACKS
These messages are examples of phishing attacks reported to IT. If you have received one of these messages please delete it and forget about it.
- [June 13, 2024] Email Phishing Attempts
- [May 11, 2023] Office 365 Expiration
- [December 28, 2020] Salary Increase
- [September 12, 2019] New Update
- [August 8, 2019] JOB-OFFER
LEGITIMATE EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS
These are messages sent by IT to individual users to notify them of specific issues or problems. They are legitimate and you should act on them accordingly.
PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Upcoming Alternate Account Password Expiration [11-Jul-2022 until 13-Mar-2023]
- Upcoming MultiPass Password Expiration [20-MAR-2020 until 13-Mar-2023]
- Holiday Cybersecurity Awareness Training Notice [7-Dec-2021]
- Change to Microsoft Teams Content Sharing [5-Nov-2021]
- Cybersecurity Awareness Month Email [6-Oct-2021]
- August Cyber-Security Awareness Training [30-Aug-2021]
- Microsoft is Retiring Teams Mobile Support… [26-Aug-2021]
- Upcoming Cybersecurity Awareness Training [25-Aug-2021]
- Exchange Mailbox Created (MyMail -> Exchange Migration) [9-Aug-2021]
- Workday ERP Modernization Project [12-Jul-2021]
- Update on PrintNightmare Critical Vulnerability [6-Jul-2021 until 2-Aug-2021]
- PrintNightmare Critical Vulnerability Update [1-Jul-2021]
- Upcoming Alternate Account Password Expiration [16-May-2022 through 10-Jul-2022]
- Alternate Account Upcoming MultiPass Password Expiration [20-MAR-2020 through 15-May-2022]
- Emergency Security Notice [30-Jun-2021]
- Intemittent Network Issues [8-Jun-2021]
- Multi-Factor Authentication Deadline – May 18th, 2021 [18-May-2021]
- Critical Vulnerability in Dell Computers email [6-May-2021]
- Campus Technology Experience Survey email [8-Apr-2021]
- Changes to Mines POP protocol/Changes to e-mail forwarding rules [26-Mar-2021]
- February Security Training Announcement [25-Feb-2021]
- PLEASE READ – IMPORTANT PHISHING EMAIL ATTACK [28-Dec-2020]
- ITS Delivers Enhanced Microsoft Exchange Email Security [7-Dec-2020]
- Email Policy Change Reminder [1-Oct-2020]
- Partial Outages on August 24th [24-Aug-2020]
- Upcoming MultiPass Password Expiration [14-AUG-2019 through 20-MAR-2020]
- Microsoft Teams Desktop Application Installation and Workshops [17-Mar-2020]
- Helping our customers stay connected and productive with remote work alternatives [13-Mar-2020]
- Eduroam problems [22-Mar-2019]
- Alert – Email Impersonating Mines Employees and Students [22-Jan-2019]
- Migration to Office 365 and Exchange Online [17-Dec-2018 through Mar-2019]
- Changes to the Mines VPN infrastructure [09-Nov-2018]
- BDM Indexing Weekly Message [Monday mornings]
- Banner Password Change [Sep-2018]
- Spam Filter Account Access is Changing [03-Jul-2018 and recurring thereafter]
- Upcoming MultiPass Password Expiration [07-MAY-2018 through 14-Aug-2019]
For older messages, please see the archived messages at https://it.mines.edu/verify/verify-archive/.