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Last Thursday, approximately 1,000 to 2,000 malicious emails were sent out to the University community in an attempt to access and collect personal information from both students and faculty members, according to Princeton’s Office of Information Technology.

The Office of Information Technology and the USG are running a pilot program this month to test products that may improve webmail services.

Students participating in the program are assigned to test either Google Apps for Education, which offers Gmail and other Google products, or Microsoft Office 365, which offers Exchange 2010, SharePoint and Office applications like Word and Powerpoint.

As we enter into independent work and thesis season, our dependence on computers increases. The Office of Information Technology handles a vast array of technological problems on campus, including helping students with their individual computer problems. However, the current walk-in system needs to be revised to create better access to OIT’s services.

The eight-hour Internet outage on Monday that affected thousands of users on campus was related to an effort to upgrade the campus Internet system, but the University has not yet been able to pinpoint the specific cause, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.

Thousands of students and faculty lost connection to the Internet for about eight hours on Monday, due to an unprecedented malfunction in the system that regulates access to the University networks.