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		<title>Awareness is the best weapon against online attacks</title>
		<link>http://www.ee99ee.com/blog/2009/10/09/awareness-is-the-best-weapon-against-online-attacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[phishing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is a dangerous place. That may be what your parents told you when you were young after reading some scary article about a bank account being drained from a scam. Certainly the Internet can be a dangerous place. As I’m writing this, MTSU just sent out an announcement from the Information Technology Division (ITD) warning students of a scam being spread by email. Apparently someone is sending students emails claiming to be from the helpdesk, seeking information such as their name, MTSU account login and password. With this valuable information, the attacker could login to a student’s MTSU account and get private information such as parent’s name and contact information, a copy of the student’s transcript, access to class information, and more. Moreover, with this access an attacker could login to the student’s email and use that as a means to reset passwords to popular social media sites, such as Facebook. Clearly, unauthorized access to a student’s account login is not good. There are a number of things one can do, however, to minimize the risk or prevent such attacks all together. These types of attacks are called Phishing. When I was young, I remember going fishing on[more]]]></description>
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