The Minnesota State System Office has noted an increase in phishing attacks using stolen StarID accounts (so they come from email addresses within the Minnesota State system). The emails are being sent to primarily students telling them they need to “verify” their account to prevent it from being terminated. They are sent to a Google form which asks for passwords […]
Cyberattacks are becoming more and more frequent. As you may have heard, the City of St. Paul suffered a cyberattack this summer and declared a state of emergency while they assessed and secured their systems. In March 2024, Minnesota State Moorhead suffered a cyberattack which required a rebuild of most of our systems. System breaches are often the result of […]
The process you use to sign in to D2L Brightspace, Zoom, and Kaltura is changing on Saturday, August 9 starting at 5 p.m. Rather than entering your StarID (ab1234cd) to sign in, you will now be prompted to enter your Microsoft 365 account: StarID@go.minnstate.edu for students (example – ab1234cd@go.minnstate.edu) StarID@minnstate.edu for employees (example – ab1234cd@minnstate.edu)You may have limited access to […]
6:00 PM Friday, 7/11/2025 until 6:00 PM Sunday, 7/13/2025 Data Center Move The system office will be relocating one of the enterprise data centers. Consequently, most services hosted by the enterprise will be impacted during this maintenance period. Action Required This downtime will impact several services and users. We strongly advise institutions to prepare for an extensive outage of enterprise services […]
Sandie East, previous director of institutional research and reporting, is the newest Campus Information Officer, a role in which she’ll manage IT-related aspects of the university. Read more about Sandie. Welcome to a new part of the Dragon Community, Sandie!