Re: Oxford and Google Apps

[David Opitz <dopitz () LOYOLA EDU>]

After one wide-spread, well-written phishing attempt that tried to trick users into going to Googledocs, I looked up 
the IP addresses of docs.google.com and blocked them at our firewall.  I was just planning to do it for one day, until 
the threat was past.  It wasn't long until I started getting complaints that users (mostly students) could not get to 
Youtube.  It took me a few minutes to realize that I had also blocked Google's Youtube IP addresses.  I won't be doing 
that again.

It is so frustrating that when you click the "report abuse" button on a Google doc that it takes a week for the 
document to get taken down.  Is Google just that slow?  Sometimes I cheer myself up by thinking that Google is 
investigating the person who created the doc somehow, but I've never heard anything that says that it the case.

Peace,
Dave Opitz
Loyola University Maryland

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Subject: [SECURITY] Oxford and Google Apps

Thoughts on this matter among the experts?  http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxcert/2013/02/18/google-blocks/