Re: Uptick in imap attacks on student accounts

["Madl, Michael" <michael.madl () INDWES EDU>]

We had back in early 2019 and since then have shut down IMAP, POP and SMTP for all but a few accounts.  We are a O365 
house [disclaimer]


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UNIVERSITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> on behalf of "Jim A. Bole" 
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Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 12:06 PM
To: "SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU" <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Subject: [SECURITY] Uptick in imap attacks on student accounts

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Curious if anyone else is seeing an uptick on imap login attempts against student accounts, similar to September’s 
attack based on compromised Chegg accounts?

Jim Bole
Director of Information Security
Stevenson University
1525 Greenspring Valley Road
Stevenson, MD, 21153-0641
jbole () stevenson edu | O: 443-334-2696



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