{"id":1867,"date":"2017-02-10T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T21:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:36","slug":"forged-emails-sent-to-coe-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/10\/forged-emails-sent-to-coe-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Forged emails sent to CoE groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, February 7, <a href=\"http:\/\/record.umich.edu\/articles\/forged-emails-spread-hateful-messages-engineering-community\">forged emails<\/a> carrying messages of hate were sent to several College of Engineering email groups from an anonymous email server. The messages were &#8220;spoofed&#8221; so they appeared to come from an engineering faculty member and a doctoral student. They did not send the messages. The U-M\u00a0Police Department and the FBI are conducting a joint criminal investigation into the incident. The Information Assurance group is also involved in the investigation.\u00a0Email &#8220;spoofing&#8221; is the forgery of an email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source.\u00a0This is different from hacking, which involves a cyber attacker taking over an individual&#8217;s account by circumventing security systems. In this case, no one has circumvented any IT security protocols at U-M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, February 7, forged emails carrying messages of hate were sent to several College of Engineering email groups from an anonymous email server. The messages were &#8220;spoofed&#8221; so they appeared to come from an engineering faculty member and a doctoral student. They did not send the messages. The U-M\u00a0Police Department and the FBI are conducting a joint\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/10\/forged-emails-sent-to-coe-groups\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[159,23],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-email","tag-security"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"excerpt-thumbnail":false,"themonic-thumbnail":false,"ioslider-thumbnail":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"400x250-crop":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"On Tuesday, February 7, forged emails carrying messages of hate were sent to several College of Engineering email groups from an anonymous email server. The messages were &#8220;spoofed&#8221; so they appeared to come from an engineering faculty member and a doctoral student. They did not send the messages. The U-M\u00a0Police Department and the FBI are&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}