SecurityRatty: Carleton University phishing attack sends its population 10,000 messages linking to faked college site

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Carleton University phishing attack sends its population 10,000 messages linking to faked college site

2008-07-24 10:47:40 by Scott in Scott Wright's Security Views

In a fit of deja vu, I woke up to hear that Carletong University in Ottawa experienced a phishing attack of “tens of thousands of email messages” sent to email accounts related to the university. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/23/ot-carleton-080723.html?ref=rss It’s not clear from the press release how the attackers got the email addresses, but in a June article on this [...]