{"id":478,"date":"2018-11-26T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=478"},"modified":"2018-11-26T16:14:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T21:14:57","slug":"staffs-and-employees-strategic-plan-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/staffs-and-employees-strategic-plan-update\/","title":{"rendered":"STAFFS AND EMPLOYEES STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-479\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/11\/Nov26StrategicPlanUpdate1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/11\/Nov26StrategicPlanUpdate1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/11\/Nov26StrategicPlanUpdate1-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-480\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/11\/Nov26StrategicPlanUpdate2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/11\/Nov26StrategicPlanUpdate2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/11\/Nov26StrategicPlanUpdate2-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-481\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/11\/Nov26StrategicPlanUpdate3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/11\/Nov26StrategicPlanUpdate3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/11\/Nov26StrategicPlanUpdate3-300x286.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 Elizabeth Bradley, the Vassar College president.<\/li>\n<li>The college is working on an all-campus Priorities and Planning initiative, which is similar to a Strategic Plan as noted in the subject line.<\/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\">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\">We&#8217;ve seen this one before! A very similar one was circulated in May, 2017: <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/2017\/05\/11\/important-announcement-from-president-jonathan-l-chenette\/\">http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/2017\/05\/11\/important-announcement-from-president-jonathan-l-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 <a href=\"mailto:servicedesk@vassar.edu\">servicedesk@vassar.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Protect your accounts with multi-factor authentication!\u00a0 If you do click on a phishing link and your Vassar credentials get compromised, attackers won\u2019t be able to login:\u00a0 <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<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-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}