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Monday April 1, 2013
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Phishing scam hacks UI email accounts String of attacks target University students, CITES STAFF WRITER
An aggressive phishing campaign successfully attacked about 36 University email accounts within the last month, and CITES specialists said many other accounts may have been compromised. “It’s the worst scam I’ve seen since I started in 2005,” said Brian Mertz, chief communications officer at CITES. “This campaign is particularly aggressive.” In the latest string of attacks, hackers have targeted University students through “lures” that scare students into giving away sensitive information like their email passwords. With that information, hackers use the University accounts to spam others. “(Hackers will) tell you you won’t have your email account anymore,” Mertz said. “Or they’ll tell you to update your bank account information for security reasons.” Hackers spam randomly generated lists of email addresses, some of which are made up. These fake addresses cause thousands of messages to bounce back to the inbox of the hacked email account. As a result of the amount of spam coming from University email accounts, many University email addresses have been blacklisted, or blocked from sending emails, by several companies that provide spam
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Hackers phish for sensitive information by using a “lure” in an email. The lure can be anything, most commonly money or fear. Emails tell users they will win money or their account will be blocked if they do not give sensitive information such as a username or password. When students give the username and password for their illinois.edu account, for example, their account is used to spam thousands of other accounts. The massive amount of spam coming out of illinois.edu addresses has caused the University to get blacklisted. When a domain is blacklisted, emails can no longer be sent from that domain.
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Tips from Cindy YewdallThackeray, senior security outreach specialist at CITES:
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1. Phishing attacks can come not just via email, but via Facebook, Twitter, texts or even a phone call. 2. When typing any information into a webpage or a return email, think about the information you’re giving away. What can a hacker do with that information? 3. The sender of an email can be faked. If an email or link looks suspicious, call the institution it says it came from to verify that it really came from them. 4. Hover over links in emails to see where they direct you to. If you click, check the address bar to make sure you are at the website you are supposed to be at. 5. Keep separate passwords for each different account.
Women’s Resource Center’s events aim to change response to crime
FROM THE EDITOR
Readers: Take ownership of your news experience; We want to hear from you Email us — we’ll respond. Call us — we’ll answer. Tweet at us — we’ll reply. However you want to reach out to us, my staff and I are here to listen. And from our end, we’re already rethinking how we use DailyIllini.com and our army of social media outlets. Select stories from the next day’s paper, especially those with immediate news value, won’t have to wait until midnight to be published to the website. And we’re off to a great start — a second-day snow day story recorded a large number of hits shortly after it was posted Monday night. With that, social media will continue be the cornerstone in moving information and spreading ideas — quickly but accurately. We were able to provide you with a story less than 10 minutes after we originally tweeted out classes were canceled last Monday. We were able to do that because it was a by-product of the news staff’s planning. All we needed to do was update the first few paragraphs.
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wasn’t supposed to be like this. Walking into the Illini Media Building as a freshman in 2010 or being an assistant editor last semester, I never imagined myself in this position. I never imagined myself leading a staff of 120-plus people and I never imagined myself managing a budget. I could go on. But just a couple of weeks into my tenure, I’m already finding this experience more rewarding than I could have ever hoped. But I’m still understanding my role; I was previously an assistant sports editor, so you can imagine that this job brings a similar but also a new set of responsibilities. That list starts and ends with being accountable to you, our readers, who we would not exist without. I have some ideas, but I also want to hear yours.
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Events during the first week of Sexual Assault Awareness Month include: April 1 Q Red Flag Campaign Kickoff Main Quad All day Q Illini Art Therapy Association workshop Women’s Resources Center 7 p.m. April 2 Q Food for Thought: Trauma and Empowerment Asian American Cultural Center 12 p.m.
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month begins Monday, and educational events on the subject will be hosted around the community to raise awareness throughout the month about the issue. Molly McLay, co-chair of the SAAM committee and assistant director of the Women’s Resources Center, said the events aim to change the public’s response to sexual assault. “It’s important to know how to support survivors, how to say things that show you care about them and respect them,” she said. Detective Rob Murphy, of UIPD and a SAAM committee member, said many sexual assault victims don’t come forward, making sexual assault one of the most underreported crimes. In 2011, there were 12 total reported incidents of forcible sex offenses on the main campus, according to UIPD. The total number of reported incidents
for 2012 will not be verified until September. McLay said the public has a tendency to immediately bombard survivors with questions about what they were wearing or doing before the crime took place, which she referred to as victim-blaming statements. She said this is a reason why survivors are less likely to come forward. “Those are all things that put the responsibility on the survivor
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instead of where it belongs, which is on the person who committed the crime,” she said. To raise awareness and educate students about the issue, many organizations around campus are hosting events throughout the month. The campus’s seventh annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes will take place Friday in order to combat
Total reported incidents of forcible sex offenses on main campus 2009: 7 2010: 12 2011: 12 2012*: 12 “Forcible sex offense” is defined as “any sexual act directed at another person, forcibly and/ or against that person’s will or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity or because of his/her youth. Includes forcible rape, forcible sodomy, sexual assault with an object, and forcible fondling.”** *Number according to UIPD. 2012 totals will be verified by September 2013. **Definition according to “Clery Crime Definitions” provided by the Division of Public Safety SOURCE: UIPD ANNUAL SECURITY REPORT FOR 2011
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Students partake in Discarded to Precious Unwanted materials transformed by students BY NYAJAI ELLISON CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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Designer Jocelyn Lam, sophomore in FAA, adjusts a wedding dress worn by Chaelin Kwon, sophomore in FAA, constructed entirely out of repurposed plastic. This piece was on display Friday afternoon in the ARC lobby.
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Bringing Sexy Back: Exploring Health Sexuality UI YMCA 7 p.m. April 4 Q Women on the Move: Yoga for Healing Women’s Resources Center 7 p.m. April 5 Q Internet Safety and Dating workshop LGBT Resources Center 12 p.m. Q Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Main Quad 5 p.m. Q
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Industrial design sophomores participated Friday in Discarded to Precious, a competition challenging design students to collect discarded items and transform them into something “precious.” Competition results will be announced Monday afternoon. The competition, hosted by the Technology Entrepreneur Center, allows student designers to “look at everyday objects through a new lens,” said Deana McDonagh, a coordinator of the competition and associate professor of industrial design. “They are looking at something that’s been thrown away, discarded and has no value, and they... transforming it into something precious,” McDonagh said. The students had three weeks to create their final product. Kevin Reeder, a coordinator of the competition and associate professor of
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art, said he was eager to see how well the students thought “outside of the box.” “The thing I want to see most is how well did they use the founding material and construct something out of it,” he said. Many student competitors were eager for their creations to be presented to the public. Competitor Kelly Lin’s project, “Lutos,” is a candle holder made from pieces of discarded Christmas ornaments. Lin, a sophomore in FAA, said she first decided on the specific type of material she wanted to use before deciding on her final product, saying she “just wanted to keep the integrity of the material.” Lin said the competition taught her to keep her mind open to using out of the ordinary materials. “This project really made us (designers) go beyond our comfort zone.” Lin said. “As a sophomore, I’m just experimenting with a lot of different areas, but I’m really interested in con-
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