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From Student Organizations
Sign-up for Fall 2012 Student Organizations Fair is Now Open
Organization: Center for Leadership and Involvement
Announcement: The sign-up form for the Fall 2012 Student Organizations Fair is now open! The fair will be held during the week of September 10th, 2012, the exact date is to be determined.
Please have your organization’s primary contact fill out the sign-up form on the Wisconsin Involvement Network (WIN). For the direct link to the sign-up form and instructional information, please visit:
http://www.cfli.wisc.edu/student_organization_fair.htm
The primary contact of an organization will have the opportunity to indicate another contact person from your organization, who is specifically responsible for the fair, someone who’s available during the summer months, as well as the time leading up to the fair. This person will be notified of the exact date of the fair and about all other important fair information.
Tables are given away on a first come first service basis, and space is limited in the Kohl Center. All other questions regarding the fair can be sent to involvement@studentlife.wisc.edu.
Service, Learning, and Adventure!
Organization: The Crossing
Attachment: Quest Trip Flyer.jpg
Website: http://www.badgerquest.org
Announcement: VENTURE OUT with Quest for a meaningful and memorable adventure! Quest trips offer UW students a chance to explore issues of social justice in a hands-on environment with a diverse group of passionate and engaged peers. Quest is currently accepting applications for upcoming service-learning trips in some of the world’s most fascinating locations:
**Teach English and empower your students with real-life skills in underserved rural areas of CAMBODIA.
**Reclaim your connection to the land and explore issues of ecological and social sustainability in COSTA RICA.
**Experience the power of education and facilitate a week-long camp for disadvantaged youth in KENYA.
VISIT our website at www.badgerquest.org for more information on these exciting opportunities. All students are welcome to apply, but our small-group experience means that spaces are limited!
SUBMIT your application by May 11th for early-application discounts!
Think you’re phish-proof? Guess again.
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Website: http://www.doit.wisc.edu
Announcement: One Monday morning, like all Mondays, you open your email In Box and begin to read the messages that filtered in overnight. The first message is from your cousin, the second from your favorite clothing store, and the third from your bank. The bank message included a request to confirm your ATM and PIN numbers and other pertinent account information. You supply your information and head off to class. Later in the day, you quickly check email again and discover, through a legitimate email from your bank, that your account was emptied.
Think this doesn’t actually ever happen? According to the 2011 UW-Madison Computing Survey, 11% of your fellow students have been victims of phishing scams. That’s nearly 4,640 people!
So, what exactly is a phishing scam? An attacker poses as a legitimate entity, like your bank, alerting you to a problem with your account. You are urged to respond immediately by clicking a web link and "verifying" or "updating" your account information. The email and the website may appear official, with all the familiar logos and corporate phrases. But they're bait, intending to fool you into divulging your personal financial information.
Here are some tips to avoid falling for phishing scams:
• Do keep your Internet browser and operating system up-to-date with the latest security patches and updates.
• Do be wary of unsolicited messages. Even though you may recognize the name of the sender, scam artists sometimes use these tactics to get personal information from you. Never give out your NetID, password, credit card or social security number in response to an unsolicited request.
• Do validate that you are connected to a certified, encrypted web site. Look for a closed padlock in the status bar at the bottom of your browser window and for "https:" rather than "http:" in the URL.
• Do adjust your spam filters to ward off unwanted spam. Visit the Help Desk and search Spam Filter to learn more.
• Do use common sense. If you have any doubts, don’t respond. Contact the DoIT Help Desk at (608) 264-HELP (4357) to ask for advice.
• Don't click the link. Instead, phone the company or do an Internet search for the company’s true web address.
• Don't open email or attachments from unknown sources. Many viruses arrive as executable files that are harmless until you start running them.