{"id":220,"date":"2016-04-13T09:57:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=220"},"modified":"2016-04-13T09:57:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:57:44","slug":"matthew-vassar-shared-information-with-you-dropbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/matthew-vassar-shared-information-with-you-dropbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Vassar shared Information with you (Dropbox)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-221\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/04\/April13Dropbox.jpg\" alt=\"April13Dropbox\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/04\/April13Dropbox.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/04\/April13Dropbox-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><!--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 valid Vassar email address.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The message looks similar to a Dropbox notification, including the usage of a valid logo.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vassar College constituents often use Dropbox to share files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The URL, or link, contained in the message does not link to Dropbox.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The destination link asks the user to pick from a number of services to login, as opposed to going directly to a Dropbox login screen.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grammar errors, spelling errors, and generic salutations and sign-offs are usually indicative of a suspicious email.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">A phone call to the alleged sender would quickly verify if this is a legitimate email. It only takes a few minutes to pick up the phone!<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Report it as phishing to Google. Before 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! Be 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-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","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=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}