{"id":600,"date":"2020-08-17T08:36:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T12:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=600"},"modified":"2020-08-18T08:54:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T12:54:52","slug":"vassar-college-fax-for-matthew-vassar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/vassar-college-fax-for-matthew-vassar\/","title":{"rendered":"Vassar College Fax for Matthew Vassar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-601\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2020\/08\/Aug17Fax1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2020\/08\/Aug17Fax1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2020\/08\/Aug17Fax1-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-602\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2020\/08\/Aug17Fax2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1006\" height=\"1034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2020\/08\/Aug17Fax2.jpg 1006w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2020\/08\/Aug17Fax2-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2020\/08\/Aug17Fax2-768x789.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2020\/08\/Aug17Fax2-996x1024.jpg 996w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1006px) 100vw, 1006px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many organizations use electronic fax platforms to send documents<\/li>\n<li>Housing Wire is a valid company<\/li>\n<li>The links use real CAPTCHA technology for user validation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An electronic fax normally does not require any authentication and would come into email as a normal attachment<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The login page is fake, the URL in the browser is not a Microsoft or Office365 website<\/li>\n<li>The Vassar College login to Microsoft services is through the VassarOne portal, and is never a Microsoft specific login screen<\/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 filled in your credentials, please contact the Service Desk immediately at x7224 or <a href=\"mailto:servicedesk@vassar.edu\">servicedesk@vassar.edu<\/a><\/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>Did you know: the best way to protect your accounts is by using multi-factor authentication. See our 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-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","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=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}