Cyber hoaxes!
As reported in 'The Chronicle of Higher Education', USA, the college/university presidents are becoming easy targets for cyber squatting and hoaxes. Recently, a fake resignation letter was released on a fake webpage resembling to that of Mark G.Yudof, President of the university of California, which read -“I hereby resign my tenure as President”. The fake letter then praised student protests and added -“I have decided to go back to school to study the history of social movements.” Mr. Yudof immediately clarifying his position said that his resignation was a complete nonsense.
Previously, a number of famous people had reportedly fallen victim to “cyber squatting” or “name jacking” in which a familiar domain name is used for somebody else's benefit.
The modern Internet technology has brought about revolutions in the system of free information and knowledge flow around the globe. But unfortunately there are some crooked persons who are out to interrupt/pollute this system. Meanwhile, people have been advised to get domain names registered for protection against cyber squatting or name jacking.
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