February 2015 – NYU IT Security News and Alerts

TA15-051A: Lenovo Superfish Adware Vulnerable to HTTPS Spoofing

Bridgette Austin February 24, 2015July 30, 2015

Summary: A piece of pre-installed adware (Superfish) on recently purchased Lenovo consumer PCs can allow an attacker to view normally secured web communications. What Does This Mean For Me: This software may expose web mail, banking, and shopping transactions and information, and more, regardless of which web browser (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc) you are […]

New York University Email Alert [Code: 3141] phishing scam

Bridgette Austin February 18, 2015February 2, 2016

There are new reports about a phishing message that purports to come from “New York University Technical Service “ The phishing message claims “Dear User, The following alert has been posted to your webmail account regarding an unauthorized access to your account,” and instructs the recipient to click on a web link. An adjacent URL […]