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Thresher: Phishing attacks on Rice community increasingly sophisticated, IT office warns

This article is a reposting of a Rice Thresher article.

by Elizabeth Rasich, Rice Thresher

January 10, 2017

“Schemes to steal usernames and passwords are another part of the Rice University experience. Students, faculty and staff alike are falling victim to attacks that direct Rice email users to sites that almost exactly resemble legitimate, Rice-sponsored sites. Phishing scams are now more frequent and more technologically advanced, prompting the Office of Information Technology recently to direct its IT representatives to warn their residential colleges about this increasing sophistication.”

Read the entire Thresher article.

 

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