More from the world of computers or GO FISH!

For students duped by a bogus e-mail claiming to be from the IU server, two students at the School of Informatics have a message: You’ve been spoofed by fictitious identity hackers.

The hackers, graduate students Tom Jagatic and Nate Johnson, conducted an e-mail experiment last week that has outraged some students and raised important questions about privacy and the public sphere.

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Phishing Attacks Using Social Networks
Human Subject Study #05-9893, #05-9892
Research Study Blog

Phishing is the fraudulent acquisition, through deception, of sensitive personal information such as passwords, by masquerading as someone trustworthy.

Data gathered from the Internet was analyzed and used to create a contextual type of attack using deception. An email was spoofed by us, misrepresenting a communication between two friends, Alice and Bob. It is presumed an email from a friend would typically hold more credibility than from some unknown person/entity. The emails which were spoofed were not actually sent from the subject’s personal email accounts.

How many of these emails wind up in my Spam box everyday - you’d be surprised.