{"id":289,"date":"2016-11-30T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T21:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=289"},"modified":"2016-11-30T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T21:17:15","slug":"important-message-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/important-message-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-290\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/11\/Nov30DearEmployeeEMAIL.jpg\" alt=\"nov30dearemployeeemail\" width=\"600\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/11\/Nov30DearEmployeeEMAIL.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/11\/Nov30DearEmployeeEMAIL-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-291\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/11\/Nov30DearEmployeeFORM.jpg\" alt=\"nov30dearemployeeform\" width=\"600\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/11\/Nov30DearEmployeeFORM.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/11\/Nov30DearEmployeeFORM-262x300.jpg 262w\" 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 email appears to be from the CIS Help Desk.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The link redirects to a page that looks exactly like the Vassar Central Authentication Service page, which is used to login to Banner Online and other services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The link in the email does <em>not<\/em> go to a Vassar site or any other service related to Vassar.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The email message is extremely generic and lacks any details.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vassar College Information Technology department is called CIS (Computing and Information Services), <em>not<\/em> ITS.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Official messages from CIS or other Vassar departments would not ask a user to click on an outside link to read a simple message.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is an extremely dangerous Phishing attempt. If you clicked on this link and may have completed the form, please contact the Service Desk immediately at x7224 or servicedesk@vassar.edu<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Always examine the link!\u00a0 Look at the information in your web browser to determine whether or not the site you are directed to is a Vassar site or an unknown (or suspicious) one.<\/li>\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-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","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=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}