The university’s requirements for creative and frequently changing passwords are used to prevent phishing and other information insecurity, an information security engineer said.
Barbara McClellan, information security administrator, said that in the past, many students were phished through their university e-mail account.
Phishing is the criminal activity of attaining private information, such as passwords and user names.
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