When emails were sent to 5000 WUR students and staff, 17 percent fell for the trap, only 6 percent less than in a similar test in April. Security manager Raoul Vernède concludes from this that the information campaign in the past few months has only had a limited effect. A number of repeat offenders even supplied the requested details twice, even though the email was identical. Vernède is convinced that Wageningen UR needs more powerful security systems to combat cybercrime.
Phishing
Almost a fifth of students and staff at Wageningen UR provide their login details without a murmur when asked to do so by a stranger, it appears from a new test carried out by the IT department.
