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Re: "<insert your EDU here> Collaborative Networks"...?
From: Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:12:48 -0400
Hi, We got this also. Joel --On Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:06 PM +0000 John Lupton <lupton () ISC UPENN EDU> wrote:
We're receiving reports from across campus today about a spam/phishing-like email inviting the recipient to sign up for "UPENN Collaborative Networks" at the provided URL. The accompanying text suggests it's a Facebook/LinkedIn wannabe, the (alleged) sender is one "Brett Ashlock (bashlock () weavemail com)". I tried plugging other peer institution names into the URL in place of UPENN and got a raft of 404 messages. Anyone else seeing this, or are we just the lucky lottery winners this time around? They do not appear to be related to Collaborative Networks (www.collaborativenetworks.net), a Boston-based firm. The URL in the message is part of www.weavespace.com, and that site is remarkably free of informative as to who, what and where these people are, and Mr. Ashlock does not seem to light up any Google searches, nor does he appear in any of our Penn databases. I'd love to know if any of you are scratching your heads at this too. ==================================================== John Lupton Sr. Information Security Specialist/Copyright Agent University of Pennsylvania/ISC lupton () isc upenn edu (215) 573-3811
Joel Rosenblatt, Director 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 Public PGP key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x90BD740BCC7326C3
Current thread:
- "<insert your EDU here> Collaborative Networks"...? John Lupton (Apr 12)
- Re: "<insert your EDU here> Collaborative Networks"...? Joel Rosenblatt (Apr 12)
- Re: "<insert your EDU here> Collaborative Networks"...? Bob Bayn (Apr 12)
- Re: "<insert your EDU here> Collaborative Networks"...? John Lupton (Apr 12)
- Re: "<insert your EDU here> Collaborative Networks"...? Robert Meyers (Apr 12)
- Re: "<insert your EDU here> Collaborative Networks"...? John Lupton (Apr 12)