Re: FYI: Another round of spear Phishing

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

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 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
>
> --
> ~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