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Can you use e-mail to tell people to change their passwords after a phishing attack?

By NetworkWorld Co... on Tue, 02/12/08 - 8:52am.
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Boston University recently had a phishing outbreak in which people on the college network were sent messages telling them to reset the passwords on their network logins. BU IT jumped right on it, took (undisclosed, natch) counter-measures and then, e-mailed the entire campus:

The email included a link for those who gave out their information so they could change their Kerberos passwords.

But would you trust such a message?

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