Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing

["Gasper, Rick" <rickgasper () KINGS EDU>]

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 Phishing

> I 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

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~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