I have a bunch of Google Alerts aimed at getting information on new pages from .edu sites. Because of that, I occasionally get information about spam on a page via an abandoned software installation or PHP injection. Often I’ll e-mail the college about it. They’ll ignore it (I rarely hear back) but I’ve done my bit and I move on.
But wow, Radians College, you took it to the next level. My dear readers, I hope very much you don’t have anything important stashed on that institution’s servers.
I was going through my alerts this morning and I saw that I had gotten a ton of hits on Radians and the word forex. That wasn’t one of my usual hits for Web spam (it’s usually drugs or something like that) so I Googled the Web site to get a little more background.
And got this from Google:
So much for going through the site looking for an IT contact. I backed off and did a general search for forex and the college site. And got a bucketload of results:
Wow, lots of hits for forex but also for money. I wondered if there was additional spam for money. And there was!
At this point I decided that whatever was in Radians College’s servers was really in there tight. And it didn’t make any sense that there would be that much spam but nothing about drugs (Drug spam is without question the .edu spam I see most in my Google Alerts.) I thought that searching for drugs on the Radians Web site would give me too many false positives, as it’s a nursing school. I’d hit pages on classes, teaching materials, etc.
Nah, I needn’t have worried:
The Twitter account isn’t verified, but what I think is the Radians College Twitter account hasn’t been updated for about six months, and the Facebook page (again, not verified) hasn’t been updated since the beginning of October.
If anybody knows a Radians College IT person, could you please tell them that their site needs some serious cleaning? And if you’ve ever given that site any personal or financial information, you might want to double check it.
Categories: News
interestingly .. https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagnostic/index.html#url=radianscollege.edu marked as not dangerous
Connecting to EDU.whois-servers.net…
Radians College
1025 Vermont Ave., NW Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
UNITED STATES
Administrative Contact:
William Winkowski
Medtech – Radians College
1025 Vermont Ave., NW Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
UNITED STATES
(317) 845-0300
wwinkowski@medtech.edu
Technical Contact:
Technical Ops
Technical
Medtech College
1025 Vermont Ave., NW Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
UNITED STATES
(202) 291-9020
tops@medtech.edu
Connecting to EDU.whois-servers.net…
Medtech Institute
2839 Paces Ferry Road, suite 400
Atlanta, GA 30339
UNITED STATES
Administrative Contact:
George Hantzios
VP of IS
Medtech Institute
2839 Paces Ferry Road, suite 400
Atlanta, GA 30339
UNITED STATES
(678) 486-8306
helpdesk@medtech.edu
Technical Contact:
George Hantzios
VP of IS
Medtech Institute
2839 Paces Ferry Road, suite 400
Atlanta, GA 30339
UNITED STATES
(678) 486-8306
helpdesk@medtech.edu
I looked into contacting Medtech, but after poking around a little I realized I was taking way too much time with this and had to get back to my other work.
You might see if you are connected to anyone at the school via LinkedIn? https://www.linkedin.com/company/9288926?trk=edu-cp-sa-clogo
You know, that hasn’t even occurred to me! I have a mental block about LinkedIn. 🙂