Feb 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
In my email this morning, I just learned that someone tweeted a picture of me! Not so fast. It’s email from a scammer impersonating a legitimate twitter account to get me to surrender my account information. Even though the email appears to have come from...
Feb 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
People are reporting dozens of different phishing scams in UDel.edu mailboxes. A lot of the phishing messages are coming in with a subject line of “Technical Support” or “Webmail Alert!” and appear to come from elbt@udel.edu, helpdesk@udel.edu,...
Feb 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
This morning we have begun receiving reports of phishing scams baited with information allegedly from the IRS about a problem with the recipient’s tax refund. As Michael Hickins, Wall Street Journal, pointed out in a March 2011 blog post, It’s tax season, which...
Feb 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
You have to be careful with all of your email accounts. For example, look at this classic that arrived in one UD employee’s Yahoo! email account: Most companies, banks, organizations, and universities do not send out email that asks you to click a link to...
Feb 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
We can’t possibly post every phish we’ve seen this week–as phishers trawl for identities they can steal, bombarding UD inboxes at the beginning of a new semester. But this one has an interesting wrinkle: it claims that someone with a specific IP...
