BLOOMINGTON, Ind.
(AP) - Indiana University technology officials say more than 10 percent of
employees flunked a test to see if they would fall for an email phishing
scam.
The Herald-Times
reports more than 100 of 1,000 employees responded to an email last week
asking them to change their passwords.
IU Chief
Information Officer Brad Wheeler asked a company to create the email under
his name but not his email address. A follow-up message was sent the next
day from Wheeler’s IU email address informing employees of the exercise.
IU Center for
Applied Cybersecurity Research director Von Welch says the exercise was
“kind of like doing a fire drill.” He says the goal is to ensure the school
is prepared. He says workers at other universities have fallen prey to
similar phishing attacks.
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