Re: myedu.com abuse

[Tim Faircloth <Tim.Faircloth () GSW EDU>]

Is there no way to filter it out at your spam filter?  You do have a spam filter, right?

/tim
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Tim Faircloth
System Administrator
GSW IIT
229-931-5076


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Chet 
Langin
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 3:03 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] myedu.com abuse


All,

One of our professors has received an abusive e-mail via myedu.com, which is apparently a web site that allows students 
to rate
professors and classes.  It apparently works like this:  a student creates an account on myedu.com and rates the 
professor/class.
However, apparently the student can also use this myedu.com account to write an e-mail which is then anonymously sent 
to the
professor.  We have the headers and traced the e-mail back to myedu.com from the headers.  Before, I try to contact 
myedu.com, I was
wondering if anyone else has already done this and could give me an idea as to what to expect.


--
Chet Langin, GCIA, GSEC
SIUC Information Security Officer