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Archive for September, 2008

Phishing Email Vaults Over Campus Security Setup

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Last week, a phishing scam harried students and faculties of Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland by leaping over robust online security barriers at the campus. The scam email got through by passing itself off as official communication from the university.
The email, signed-off as from “EDU.ACCOUNT® High Speed Internet SM”, informed recipients [...]

Fake Degrees from St.Regis University still in use

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A recent BBC investigation uncovered that fake degrees acquired online from St. Regis University, a bogus institution, may still be in use. The BBC report tracked down individuals in Britain who had paid around £700 for a PhD in Social Science and for another in Pharmacology.
Those who acquired them thought then, their degrees [...]

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