Phishing 101: Don't Take the Bait
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Thursday, Volume 151 11.8.2018 No. 35 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 WWW.SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY Request passwords using unsecured webpages or non- university web pages S J S U Send automated DOES messages asking for your username N OT Send automated system warning messages needing immediate response to avoid penalties INFORMATION GATHERED BY WINONA RAJAMOHAN, INFOGRAPHIC BY MELISA YURIAR AND MARCI SUELA SOURCE: SJSU INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIVISION Phishing 101: Don’t take the bait By Winona Rajamohan party attempting to collect information from has to do with my SJSU account or something “There is no systematic way to inform STAFF WRITER students. Email recipients were cautioned to that’s really personal.” people [about cybersecurity] unless they not click the link attached. Moallem is committed to his effort of go look for information in the news or on On Oct. 30, a number of San Jose State Though some recipients were informed informing allowing students on campus to their own,” Moallem said. “You cannot University students received a scam email by faculty and on-campus supervisors, some understand the importance of cybersecurity, improve awareness unless it is incorporated sent under the name of the IT Department students were only aware about the “phishing” which is the protection of internet-connected into the educational system.” calling for students to click on said link to attempt when talking to other students who systems such as hardware and software In his study “Cyber Security Awareness verify their school account as active to avoid had not received the same email. from cyber attacks. Among College Students” published in being deleted. A classmate of public health senior Moallem teaches undergraduate November 2017, Moallem found that “Phishing is the most efficient way of Tamana Osmani had asked her if she and graduate courses at SJSU revolving 24 percent out of a surveyed group of hacking, the easiest way to get credentials from received the email as well and decided to not around human computer interaction and 247 students were not aware about the people,” adjunct professor at SJSU’s College of click the link after discovering she had not cybersecurity, components of a collegiate concept of cybersecurity. Engineering, Abbas Moallem said. received the same email. education that he said all students should be The necessity for cybersecurity awareness SJSU students have been subject “I do sometimes fear about my security exposed to as they enter university. education is the thesis of studies that Moallem to “phishing” scams when receiving online when it comes to debit cards and His book “Human-Computer Interaction has conducted. He focuses on students and emails sent out by senders who claim to having our cards connected to Apple Pay, that and Cybersecurity Handbook” was recognized faculty within Silicon Valley’s jurisdiction represent the university. does scare me,” Osmani said. during the annual Author and Artist Awards because of its technological advancements, The newly sent out scam email was “It still doesn’t get me to where I feel like I held in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library determined by school faculty to be an outside need to have an extra long password unless it last Friday. SECURITY| Page 2 BRAZILIAN ELECTION Having a blast hosing it down President-elect emboldens extremists Brazilian president-elect advocates for violence vs. journalists, citizens By Hugo Vera STAFF WRITER Last month, far-right politician and former mil- itary officer Jair Bolsonaro won the 2018 Brazilian presidential election. The now Brazilian President-Elect has sparked much controver- BOLSONARO sy over the years for his ultra-conservative views “As far as I’m concerned as well as his policies with government advertis- regarding Brazil’s black ing – press that acts like and LGBT populations. that, lying shamelessly, A lifelong opponent of won’t have any support leftist and liberal-leaning from the federal govern- media outlets, Bolsonaro ment,” Bolsonaro said in had announced on his a recent press conference. MELISA YURIAR | SPARTAN DAILY campaign that, “the news- Graphic design senior Nichelle Jarrell washes a screen to create a new design in the Art Building on Wednesday. paper is done.” ELECTION| Page 2 A&E Opinion Sports Film pays Trump SJSU men’s tribute to administration basketball team Freddie Mercury villainizes migrants kicks off season Page 3 Page 4 Page 6 sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 2 THURSDAY, NOV. 8, 2018 NEWS SECURITY get a lot of information should talk about.” numbers through here,” from you like your date In light of National Osmani said. Continued from page 1 of birth, phone number,” Cybersecurity Month Moallem drew out the Moallem said. “Young There is no technological solution that is in October, SJSU’s example of routines such people are most subject to going to resolve all these cybersecurity Information Technology as locking your car when diverse community and identity theft.” division released a you get out of it and putting economic wealth. Some of the common problems tomorrow, the only thing that newsletter last month important documents in a Moallem said that in mistakes Moallem sees we can evolve at this point is awareness. regarding safe computing safe or bank account, in an environment where young people make in practices such as password which people are usually technology is so prevalent regards to cybersecurity management tips, mobile in a constant state of in the lives of students, include: updating Abbas Moallem security tips and methods awareness when doing so. industrial & systems engineering lecturer many people are still not applications and device to keep devices clean of “You need to have this practicing simple habits to softwares infrequently, not vulnerabilities in the system as part of her educational viruses and potential hacks. type of behavior in order to ensure that their privacy clearing browser’s cookies they release a patch and ask curriculum. Password resets are protect your digital assets,” online is protected. and giving away social people to download them “Since I’m a computer among the most common Moallem said. “There is no A trend identified among security numbers to job so that they are protected.” science major, cybersecurity university cybersecurity technological solution that students is that they have recruiting sites online. Computer science senior affects me a lot because we measures that students is going to resolve all these less-secure passwords for “Many people do not Faith Chau shares the same learn about how we secure are aware of. cybersecurity problems their social media accounts. update their devices for five observations as Moallem. our programs,” Chau said. “I “We all have to log in tomorrow, the only thing “You’re still going to be or six months and many She personally has noted feel like other majors don’t to access SJSU’s Wi-Fi but that we can evolve at this more susceptible to social people do not know that an increase in her own talk about updating apps how secure is it? Half of point is awareness.” engineering and hackers these updates are security awareness because she has and why there are so many us are filing our taxes on could hack into your patches,” Moallem said. taken it upon herself to updates for applications, campus, half us are keying Follow Winona on Twitter social media accounts to “When software makers see learn about cybersecurity but it’s something that we in our social security @winonaarjmh ELECTION “In Brazil we can kill f*gs.” see how world politics are liberal voter apathy in Brazil “I like to believe that shaped up now. Wherever following the impeachment Continued from page 1 the election of Bolsonaro Wherever you look in the world you look in the world of former President Dilma doesn’t reflect the hatred in whether it’s the west, the Rousseff in 2016. Her Bolsonaro’s election has Brazilians. He’s not qualified whether it’s the west, the Middle East Middle East or Latin successor, former Chief upset citizens and journalists and his radical ideas could or Latin America these emerging world America these emerging of Staff Luiz “Lula” da across Brazil. During his destroy the country,” world leaders are for lack of Silva then only carried military tenure, Bolsonaro Baltazar added. leaders are for lack of a better term, a better term, psychopaths,” a 39 percent approval advocated for the use of Brazil has seen a surge psychopaths. said Students for Justice in rating following charges of torture and fear mongering in state-sponsored violence Palestine at SJSU president money laundering. tactics against designated directed toward journalists. Fawaz Harara Fawaz Harara. “People feel betrayed by Students for Justice in Palestine at SJSU president “critics of the state.” The Brazilian Association “You have the Saudi Lula and PT, who promised Senior business major of Investigative Journalism king slaughtering reporters, to make the country evolve. Natasha Baltazar, an (Abraji) has documented accounts to spread Bolsonaro poses a threat the North Korean leader The past years have resulted international student from over 141 recorded incidents slanderous falsehoods that goes beyond legislation. threatening nuclear war in a massive increase in Brazil, was born in Rio de of threats and attacks about Haddad. His hate speech has allowed and Trump alienating unemployment as well as Janeiro. The city was under carried out on Brazilian Despite Facebook many to believe that it is immigrants but what’s a complete disregard for Bolsonaro’s jurisdiction journalists during the 2018 shutting down more than OK to discriminate against scary is that they all love education, health, and during his military tenure. presidential campaign. 100,000 of these conspiracy- minorities and the LGBTQ+ each other,” Harara said in infrastructure.