{"id":100,"date":"2015-10-16T10:40:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=100"},"modified":"2015-10-16T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T14:41:21","slug":"your-october-2015-salary-or-paycheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/your-october-2015-salary-or-paycheck\/","title":{"rendered":"Your October 2015 Salary (or Paycheck)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-101\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff; padding: 1px; margin: 1px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/10\/OctoberSalaryPhish.jpg\" alt=\"OctoberSalaryPhish\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/10\/OctoberSalaryPhish.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/10\/OctoberSalaryPhish-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/10\/OctoberSalaryPhish-384x300.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The &#8220;from&#8221; field appears to contain a Human Resources\u00a0Vassar email address.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The body of the message contains a Vassar logo.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you do click on the link (please don&#8217;t!) the page that opens looks <em>exactly<\/em> like Vassar&#8217;s Central Authentication System (CAS).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The URL, or link,\u00a0contained\u00a0in the message does not link to a known Vassar site.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vassar does not normally announce payroll or salary changes in October.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A phone call to Human Resources would quickly verify if this is a legitimate email. \u00a0It only takes a few minutes to pick up the phone!<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Report it as phishing to Google. \u00a0Before deleting the message, make sure to click on \u201creport phishing&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A little paranoia goes a long way! \u00a0Be suspicious of any email messages similar to this one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}