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Seasonal Business at Universities « The Digital Dilemma — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:29:35 +0000

[...] 44. June 29, The New New Internet – (National) June busy month for cyber criminals targeting colleges. Three U.S. universities were recently targeted by separate cyber attacks attempting to either dupe students into revealing personal information or extract student data by hacking school computer systems. SPAMFighter reports how some students at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiania, fell for an e-mail scam claiming to be from the “Webmail Administrator” of the school. The e-mail urged recipients to click on an embedded link. Students of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at Harvard University were recently warned about a phishing attack that purported to be from FAS. The e-mail had the subject line “Your Account has been flagged and is about to be out of service.” The e-mail contained the same message as the subject with an additional sentence urging the user to update his or her account details to fix the issue, followed by a “CLICK TO UPDATE” link. The e-mail also asked the recipients for usernames, passwords and birth dates. And Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported June 29 how University of Maine police are investigating an attack on two UMaine computer servers. School officials said the breach could have exposed personal information related to a small percentage of students between the summer of 2002 and the present. UMaine is planning a press conference at 2 p.m. June 29 to provide more details about the breach. Source: http://www.thenewnewinternet.com/2010/06/29/june-busy-month-for-cyber-criminals-targeting-colleges/ [...]

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