Phishing

Grudaire

Did anyone read the article in the Campus view about the emails people got, asking them to give their password?

No offence (this is purely for comedy) but what kind of idiots are they letting into DCU that would hand out their password so easy? Communications:rolleyes:

dregin

Yeah, I read it. Nothing more than badly written buzzword ****e.

Phishing != hacking.

Placebo

us trinity folk got them too, whats the point of college user passwords?

Grudaire

Placebo wrote: »

whats the point of college user passwords?

This is why you are stuck in trinity.:rolleyes:

Basically in our college anyway the passwords allow access to you account to view results send emails, save stuff onto the college computer network (H drive) etc etc....

Placebo

Cliste wrote: »

This is why you are stuck in trinity.:rolleyes:

Basically in our college anyway the passwords allow access to you account to view results send emails, save stuff onto the college computer network (H drive) etc etc....

Only thing our passwords allow is
email and inturn POSSIBLY results
and a small webspace.


wow that is alot of IMPORTANT information.
compare to myspace/aib,

personal > college

and not stuck in trinity, young boy, doing an MSc there :rolleyes:

andrew163

Placebo wrote: »

Only thing our passwords allow is
email and inturn POSSIBLY results
and a small webspace.


wow that is alot of IMPORTANT information.
compare to myspace/aib,

personal > college

and not stuck in trinity, young boy, doing an MSc there :rolleyes:

I don't know about you but my college email is the last place I want anybody who isn't me looking/having access to. I don't want emails from me being sent to lecturers/employers/class lists without me even knowing it..

Same applies to webspace.. both of them would be about a million times higher on the importance scale then my myspace account (AIB fair enough)

carlowboy

andrew163 wrote: »

I don't know about you but my college email is the last place I want anybody who isn't me looking/having access to. I don't want emails from me being sent to lecturers/employers/class lists without me even knowing it..

:rolleyes: they won't have to hack your e-mail address to do that

andrew163

True, but in most cases you can just point at headers and go "that wasn't me".

DCU's SMTP server requires authentication, so if it actually came from DCU and has your address in the Sender field, there's no way of proving it wasn't you..

(leave me and my CA-induced paranoia be )

Placebo

this is a MASS phishing scam, no ones out to get an individual. And if they did there will be proof everywhere.

ALOT of people dont use their college emails for private stuff, due to non work safe type emails and the life span of the email, expire after graduation [not the case for trinity though]

Same applies to webspace.. both of them would be about a million times higher on the importance scale then my myspace account (AIB fair enough)

not really, people have been using myspace as a social climbing lader, with access to your personal messages [which btw lets face it, are more personal these days than an emails [which at this stage are really as good as PEN and PAPER mail and mostly just used for formal business type communication]
Webspace is monitored by your college, limited space, user able to recover password again = little use.