December 19, 2008
Top 10 Threats to Computer Systems Include Professors and Students
Karen McDowell spent several days this fall dressed in a purple fish costume, holding a plastic spear.
Ms. McDowell, a network-security analyst at the University of Virginia, wanted to raise awareness about "phishing," e-mail schemes in which con artists send messages to trick people into giving out passwords or other personal information. Ms. McDowell walked around high-traffic areas of the campus to get attention. "Sometimes I introduced myself as a fraudulent e-mail because many
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