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As the year's tax deadline approaches, tax scams start ratcheting up, especially by phone.  Some of the most common scams involve con-artists who pretend to be from the IRS and call victims telling them they have to pay right now, or else. 

Don't believe it - the IRS has formal processes in place for people with tax issues and harassing calls like these are not how the IRS does business.  The IRS will NEVER:

Another example of a phish that attempts to trick the user to click on a link to a malicious website by claiming their password will expire otherwise. This one purports to come from the IT-Service Help Desk.

Campus was the target of a phishing email purporting to be from the U.S. Dept of Labor and asking for users to update their employment records. Beware of emails with the subject line "Record Update".

Several people on campus fell for this phish, which directed the recipient to a fake CalNet login page where credentials were stolen. Beware of tax-related phishing exploits, like this one, during this time of year.

This spear phishing attack was targeted to campus academic staff. The recipient was asked to share access to research articles, but the embedded link was routed to a fake CalNet login page.

This is a forgery example of a commonly used service provider, PayPal. The intent is to fool the recipient into clicking the link directed to a malware infected webpage.

A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Joomla versions 1.5.0 to version 2.4.5. Exploits for this vulnerability have been observed in the wild. Patches are available and users are advised to upgrade immediately.

This phishing message was forged to appear to come from the UCB Human Resources office. Beware of "URGENT" message from HR concerning "Your New Salary Notification".

A serious vulnerability in Apache Commons, a library that contains a widely used set of Java components maintained by the Apache Software Foundation, puts thousands of Java applications and servers at risk of remote code execution attacks.

Effective July 14th, 2015 Microsoft is discontinuing extended support for its Windows Server 2003 operating system. Please read our bulletin to prevent your Windows Server 2003 systems from being blocked on campus networks.

A critical vulnerability that can be exploited remotely without authentication has been discovered in Drupal 7.

A major flaw, dubbed POODLE, has been discovered by Google in the design of SSL version 3.0.

A remotely exploitable flaw has been discovered in GNU Bash that allows code execution through specially-crafted environment variables.

A critical information disclosure flaw dubbed "Heartbleed" has been discovered in the OpenSSL library.

Effective April 8, 2014, Microsoft is discontinuing support for its Windows XP operating system. After April 8th of 2014, there will be no security patches for this operating system from Microsoft. All Windows XP machines must be upgraded or removed from the network by April 8th of 2014.