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Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing
From: Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:58:19 -0400
No Rick .. you have it right :-) Joel Rosenblatt --On Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:54 AM -0400 "Gasper, Rick" <rickgasper () KINGS EDU> wrote:
I want to ask a rather simple question: if a spear phisher gets the account info, does it really matter if they use Imap or pop to connect? The way I see it, once they have the keys, it doesn't really matter if the use the front door or the back door. I could be missing something and if so please let me know. Rick Gasper Manager, Network Services King's College 133 N. River St Wilkes-Barre PA 18711 PH: 570-208-5845 Fax: 570-208-6072 Cell: 570-760-0335 rickgasper () kings edu -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Sweeny, Jonny Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:09 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] FYI: Another round of spear PhishingI am trying to find out if universities are still allowing users to POP mail and, if so, is it secure POP??We moved everyone to IMAP several years ago. No POP here. More info at: https://kb.iu.edu/data/aims.html -- ~Jonny Sweeny, GSEC, GCWN, GCIH, GWAS, SSP-CNSA Incident Response Manager, Lead Security Analyst Office of the VP for Information Technology, Indiana University PGP key & S/MIME cert: http://informationpolicy.iu.edu/jsweeny jsweeny () iu edu - phone: (812)855-4194 - fax: (812)856-1011
Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security Columbia Information Security Office (CISO) Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033 http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
Current thread:
- Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing STEVE MAGRIBY (Jul 01)
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- Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing scott hollatz (Jul 01)
- Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing Jesse Thompson (Jul 01)
- Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing Sweeny, Jonny (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing Gasper, Rick (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing Joel Rosenblatt (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing Lucas, Bryan (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing Ken Connelly (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing J. Fowler (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing Joel Rosenblatt (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing Paul Russell (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing scott hollatz (Jul 02)
- Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing Gasper, Rick (Jul 03)