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Go Phish
Replace the “f” in the word “fat” with a “ph”, and suddenly you have a new word that means something is good or, dare we say, hip. Replace the “f” in the word “fish” with a “ph”, and you now have a word that can turn your life upside down. Experts from Carnegie Mellon University have developed an online game that teaches Internet users about the dangers of phishing. The game gives users tips to identify a fraudulent site from a legitimate ones by examining URLS and dissecting web addresses. Take a stab at the game here, and find out if you fall for phishing hook, line, and sinker. Also, check out this article about precautions students should take in creating and protecting passwords. A lesson we can all learn from. And finally, a campus newspaper reporter and advisor find themselves in hot water with officials at Western Oregon University after they discovered a security breach on campus computers and made a copy of it for future reporting use. What do you think about the situation?
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