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February 7, 2008
A story in The Minnesota Daily this week highlighted the growing problem of e-mail scams being harder to detect among University users. A campus alert prompted the story, when the University warned staff and students about spam messages disguised as communication that appears to be from school officials.
In the article, CSE professor Yongdae Kim explained that e-mail phishing, scams are developing into seemingly personalized attacks – addressing users by name and attempting to trick them into contracting a computer virus. "Once your machine is infected, they can install software on your machine to read your e-mail address, password or other information you type in," he said.
For more information about this issue, visit ‘Spam scams harder to spot.’
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