<p>Google “MyMIT”, the first result is a unknown website with arabic? the description is the same as the real MyMIT</p>
<p>My first thought was phishing scam, but when I clicked the link that isn’t what it looks like.
It looks like it’s a proxy website, and if you go in from Google it will have my.mit.edu in the address field. Probably better not to click “Go to website”, or if you do, don’t put in your password.
My guess is it’s a google bomb by someone, but who and why I have no idea.
Also, it’s Persian (according to google translate).</p>
<p>I thought that was a cyber attack.</p>
<p>^ lol’d</p>
<p>/10char</p>
<p>The first thing to know is that this doesn’t happen to everyone because now Google tailors its search results to you.</p>
<p>The second is that yes this appears to happen in cases where countries have internet censorship and then someone tries to apply to MIT through a local proxy which caches the results. However, we checked, and there generally isn’t a security risk because before you can enter in any truly personal information or anything the proxies will generally fail to connect to our secure servers. </p>
<p>Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it but you’re not the first person to report it.</p>