{"id":395,"date":"2017-09-21T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=395"},"modified":"2017-09-21T09:34:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:34:23","slug":"service-desk-important-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/service-desk-important-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Service Desk &#8211; Important Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-396\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/09\/Sept21ServiceDeskImportantUpdate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/09\/Sept21ServiceDeskImportantUpdate.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/09\/Sept21ServiceDeskImportantUpdate-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-397\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/09\/Sept21ServiceDesk2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1032\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/09\/Sept21ServiceDesk2.jpg 1032w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/09\/Sept21ServiceDesk2-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/09\/Sept21ServiceDesk2-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/09\/Sept21ServiceDesk2-1024x780.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1032px) 100vw, 1032px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The message appears to be from the CIS Service Desk.<\/li>\n<li>The site linked in the email is branded as VassarOne and looks very similar to the Vassar login screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The link that launches from the email does <em>not<\/em> go to a Vassar site or any other service related to Vassar.<\/li>\n<li>The originating email address is not from an internal Vassar account.<\/li>\n<li>Although the site looks similar to the Vassar login screen, there are key differences that indicate it is not valid.<\/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 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<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did you know: the best way to protect your accounts is by using multi-factor authentication. See our recent post here: <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/2017\/06\/29\/best-practice-enabling-multi-factor-authentication-with-duo\/\">http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/2017\/06\/29\/best-practice-enabling-multi-factor-authentication-with-duo\/<\/a><\/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-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}