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, Ind., fell for an email scam claiming to be from the “Webmail Administrator” of the school. The email urged recipients to click on an embedded link.

A systems security communications manager said…