<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>This morning many computer users at MIT noticed an email in their inboxes with the following subject line:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; ">MADATORY SECURITY UPDATE - JANUARY 2010 [spelling error intact]</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><b><br></b></font></div><div>The message goes on to request you to login in to your email account to ensure your account information is up to date, due to an upgrade to an "advanced server" to prevent spam from reaching your inbox. A link is provided, with a URL that has mit.edu included in it.</div><div><br></div><div>THIS MESSAGE IS NOT FROM MIT!</div><div><br></div><div>Many of our users are aware that such messages are fraudulent and will ignore them. But it is important to spread the word to those who may fall for such messages. If the link is clicked, your username and password to your email could be compromised. Within minutes, the hackers can log in to your email and use it to send out the spam they claim in their message they are trying to prevent.</div><div><br></div><div>This is just another phishing attempt. To educate our users on phishing, you can point them to the IS&T knowledge base:</div><div><a href="http://kb.mit.edu/">http://kb.mit.edu/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Enter "phishing" in the search bar or go to this link: <a href="http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/SBhB">http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/SBhB</a> which explains what is a phishing email.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></span></font></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Monique</div><div><br></div><div>=========================</div><div>Monique Yeaton</div><div>IT Security Awareness Consultant</div><div>MIT Information Services & Technology (IS&T)</div><div>(617) 253-2715</div><div><a href="http://ist.mit.edu/security">http://ist.mit.edu/security</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">Important: DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR PASSWORDS OR PRIVATE INFORMATION! </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">Ignore emails asking you to provide yours. IS&T will *NEVER* ask you for this information. </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>