According to RSA researchers, university students appear to be the latest target for online attacks.

"In recent weeks, the company has detected a sudden rise in targeted attacks on U.S. universities -- particularly public state institutions -- against internal Web sites used to serve students with services such as webmail," writes Computerworld's John E. Dunn. "Such servers often contain personal data such as grades, names, addresses, and payment information."

"The company offers screenshots from one attack in its February Online Fraud Report, that of a bogus Web site purporting to belong to an unnamed university," Dunn writes. "It is not clear how a student would have found such a site assuming a direct URL was already in existence, but any student logging into what appeared to be the official webmail site would have had their data harvested."

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