Unless you wanted to make a strategic strike on the US’s urban planning & policy capabilities, I’m afraid it wouldn’t do much. We’re a fairly large university, but we don’t have a whole lot of mind share among the general population.
Everything you do is probably always an ulterior motive for your country, rest assured that every state makes money on it for everything you produce. Now it may be that the “phishing” that hit your university may actually be an isolated thing, but it may be hiding behind a plan that probably no one can know about.
I just learned that we do have at least one government grant that could mean sensitive information going through our systems. It’s fully a defensive/hardening grant, but it could still make us a target.
You may have discovered one of the possible reasons why they attempted phishing. And I can confirm that most universities, as well as private companies, work with their country’s government… So I’m not even surprised.
Unless you wanted to make a strategic strike on the US’s urban planning & policy capabilities, I’m afraid it wouldn’t do much. We’re a fairly large university, but we don’t have a whole lot of mind share among the general population.
Everything you do is probably always an ulterior motive for your country, rest assured that every state makes money on it for everything you produce. Now it may be that the “phishing” that hit your university may actually be an isolated thing, but it may be hiding behind a plan that probably no one can know about.
I just learned that we do have at least one government grant that could mean sensitive information going through our systems. It’s fully a defensive/hardening grant, but it could still make us a target.
You may have discovered one of the possible reasons why they attempted phishing. And I can confirm that most universities, as well as private companies, work with their country’s government… So I’m not even surprised.