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LEE MCKECHNIE LEFT, RON Jensen (center) and Jerry Woods (right), all actors playing members of Dillinger’s gang, make a toast to a successful bank robbery during a re-enactment at a Dillinger Days event. These events mark John Dillinger’s 1934 Tucson arrest.
Phishing email brings UA web security to light BY JAMIE VERWYS @DailyWildcat
An email designed to look like it was sent from UA President Ann Weaver Hart was identified as a threat on Jan. 12. At the beginning of the fall 2016 semester, an email sent to some university employees appearing to be from the UA president turned out to be a phisher in Belgium. The UA’s Office of Information Security receives hundreds of reports of potentially dangerous emails on campus every year.
So far, there have been over 30 posted alerts of suspicious emails found in student and faculty inboxes this semester alone. Phishing is a social engineering technique to acquire login information and personal and banking details under the guise of legitimacy. The sender of a phishing email attempts to lure a user into giving up key facts of their digital identity. Information Security Manager Teresa Banks is in charge of online awareness and training at the UA. She said that students are viable
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targets for hackers. “Now that campus is more active, students are looking at their email,” she said. “This generation isn’t always keyed in to their email. When it looks like something that could be coming from the university, you’re clicking on it, you’re making sure you know what’s going on and it’s easy to use a few buzz words and trick you.” There are a few different ways a phish attack can snare a victim. Opening the initial email can infect someone’s computer with
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viruses or ransomware, which blocks a user from their own data until they pay money to get back in. Opening a link can direct a user to a fake website with malware. Finally, when a person actually submits their information, the logins for their accounts are saved and can be used to phish. Computer Sciences student Andrew Boring said he always feels comfortable opening emails that look like they’re from the university.
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