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Oxford University blocks Google Docs as phishing attacks soar

Oxford University blocks Google Docs as phishing attacks soar | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Oxford University has taken the radical step of temporarily blocking access to Google Docs after a dramatic increase in phishing attacks trying to harvest academic email credentials using bogus forms hosted on the service.
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In May 2012 Oxford University was also badly affected by the Mac Flashback Trojan that infected approaching 1,000 of its Mac-loving academic population.


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Gust MEES's curator insight, February 19, 2013 9:59 AM

In May 2012 Oxford University was also badly affected by the Mac Flashback Trojan that infected approaching 1,000 of its Mac-loving academic population.

 

Check also:

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=Oxford-University

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=Universities

 

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Oxford Muses on Mac Flashback: Worst Outbreak Since Blaster

Oxford Muses on Mac Flashback: Worst Outbreak Since Blaster | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

Oxford Muses on Mac Flashback: Worst Outbreak Since Blaster

 

So how bad was last month's Mac Flashback outbreak and who suffered the most? Our guess: it was bad, and university IT help desks.

 

And it looks like our guess might not be far off the mark.

 

===> Oxford University Computing Services' network security team (aka OxCERT) has written that they dealt "with what is probably the biggest outbreak since Blaster struck the Windows world all the way back in the summer of 2003." <===

 

OxCERT dealt with around 1000 incidents for Blaster. They've seen several hundred Flashback incidents… "and they keep on coming."

 

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