This usually results in suspension from certain IT facilities for a period of time - typically two weeks for a first offence. Disciplinary action is taken under Provision and Acceptable Use of IT Policy (MPF1314).Īn example of misuse is inappropriate use of student mailing lists, such as advertising to buy or sell textbooks. Misuse of IT facilities is treated seriously by the University. More information about copyright and your rights and obligations is available from the University's Copyright website. Any allegation will be investigated by the University, and, if you are responsible for copyright infringement, you would face the possibility of civil or criminal court proceedings as well as University discipline. The University forbids the use of its computing and communications facilities for any purpose which is a breach of copyright (for example, by running peer-to-peer music sharing software). Particularly, the use of student mailing lists by students to advertise books for sale or books wanted is spamming and does lead to penalties. However, the University does act against University personnel who send spam. Generally it is not possible to take action against spammers unless the spam falls within the provisions of the Spam Act 2003. The University's student email service has a spam filtering system. Refer to System Status to find out more information about any potential changes or issues that are occurring related to systems or services. Please report any such emails via the Self-Service Portal, or call the IT Service Desk (+61 3 8344 0888). The intent of phishing emails is to trick you into providing the phisher your personal information so that they can assume your identity - typically in order to use your bank account, or your University email account.īe wary of unsolicited emails, especially those purporting to be from the University, banks and other financial institutions.ĭo not provide any sensitive information, follow any links, download or execute attachments in unsolicited emails. deceptive emails which may pretend to be from your bank or the University.

Please be wary of email scams, especially phishing emails, i.e. The University will never solicit that information from you via email, and will never ask you to send a password in an email. Never release personal information, such as passwords, your address, phone number, date of birth, or credit card or banking details, to anyone over email.

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