{"id":332,"date":"2017-04-25T13:23:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=332"},"modified":"2017-04-25T13:25:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T17:25:24","slug":"from-cis-action-required-important-legislative-update-to-all-vassar-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/from-cis-action-required-important-legislative-update-to-all-vassar-members\/","title":{"rendered":"From CIS: ACTION REQUIRED: Important Legislative Update to All Vassar Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-329\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/04\/April24LegislativeUpdate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/04\/April24LegislativeUpdate.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/04\/April24LegislativeUpdate-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/04\/April24LegislativeUpdatePDF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/04\/April24LegislativeUpdatePDF.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/04\/April24LegislativeUpdatePDF-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-330\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/04\/April24LegislativeUpdateSite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/04\/April24LegislativeUpdateSite.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/04\/April24LegislativeUpdateSite-300x160.jpg 300w\" 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 Service desk.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The subject line is the same format as valid notifications from CIS.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The message contains a screenshot from Vassar&#8217;s new single-sign-on service, VassarOne.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The link that launches from the attached PDF does <em>not<\/em> go to a Vassar site or any other service related to Vassar.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Official messages from Vassar departments would not ask a user to click on an outside link to read a message.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The outside link requires a generic &#8220;email id&#8221; login screen which does not resemble any Vassar College login screens.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Misspellings, grammar errors, and strange sentence constructions are often indicators of malicious emails.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">We&#8217;ve seen this one before!\u00a0 This phishing attack works the same way as this one:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/2017\/01\/11\/important-announcement-from-president-jon-chenette\/\">http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/2017\/01\/11\/important-announcement-from-president-jon-chenette\/<\/a><\/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! 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-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","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=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}