BEWARE OF PHISHING EMAIL - " Activate your NUS Account"

You may have received email similar to the one below, which is again a phishing email targeted at NUS community. As with past phishing attempts, this email is to lure you to provide them with your account and password.

As NUS continues to be the target of phishing email, we would like to advise our users to stay vigilant, do not respond to any suspicious email, click on any links in them nor open its attachments.

For further enquiries, please contact ITCare at or x2080. Thank you.

Infocomm Security Group
Computer Centre
28 Jan 2009

-----Original Message-----
From: ANPPCANETHIOPIA CHAPTER [mailto:anppcan-eth@ethionet.et <mailto:anppcan-eth@ethionet.et> ]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:34 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: Activate your NUS Account

Dear NUS account user,

Thank you for subscribing to nus.edu.sg Internet. As part of our continuous effort in providing a higher level of service, we are pleased to inform you that we have upgrade your e-mail account and you will have to reactivate your account. To complete your account activation with us, you must reply to this email Immediately and enter your account details as requested below.

First Name:
Last Name:
User Name/ID:
Password:
Retype Password:
Phone number

You are required to do this before the next 48 hours of receipt of this email or your account will be ERASED and de-activated from our database.

NOTE: You will be send an account activation code to the Email ID you provid in the next seven (7) Working days for security reasons.

It is also pertinent, you understand that our primary concern is for our customers, and for the security of their files and data.

Your account can also be verified using the link below:

https://exchange.nus.edu.sg/exchange/ <https://exchange.nus.edu.sg/exchange/>

Thank you for using nus.edu.sg

THREE serious Intel Wireless PROSet vulnerabilities have recently been reported by Intel. Some of these vulnerabilities allow your wireless-enabled notebooks to be compromised over the wireless network. Only the latest software drivers will resolve them. Related Intel advisories can be found at http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-023068.htm.

Please follow these steps to resolve these vulnerabilities immediately:

1) Identify the Intel Wireless version your notebook is using:

Download and launch the identification tool from this link:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/8061/eng/Intel_Network_Connection_ID_Tool_303.exe

2) Download and install the latest driver according to the Hardware Version displayed.

Download and install the corresponding latest software driver from this link:
http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-010623.htm