Phishing Experiment Reveals Many Students Ready to Hand Over Personal Info

An experiment conducted to find out how many would fall victim to a phishing scam netted nearly 1,000 out of 10,000 unsuspecting students at a university in the United Arab Emirates, according to The National.

The first part of the university-sanctioned experiment at the American University of Sharjah was conducted in April on 10,000 students, alumni, staff and faculty and tricked nearly 1,000 individuals into trying to change their university…