{"id":87,"date":"2015-08-19T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T19:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=87"},"modified":"2015-09-16T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:10:34","slug":"review-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/review-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Review File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff; padding: 1px; margin: 1px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/09\/reviewfilephishing.jpg\" alt=\"reviewfilephishing\" width=\"726\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/09\/reviewfilephishing.jpg 726w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/09\/reviewfilephishing-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/09\/reviewfilephishing-470x300.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The &#8220;from&#8221; field contains the name of a known Vassar user.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The signature file looks to be from the known user (deleted from screenshot).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The URL, or link,\u00a0contained\u00a0in the message is not\u00a0Adobe, or anything resembling Adobe.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The from address does not match the from name. \u00a0Although it looks like it is from a know recipient, the from email address is gmail.com, not vassar.edu.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clicking on the link opens up a form asking for a login name\u00a0and a password. \u00a0This is the method for a hacker to gain Vassar credentials.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adobe Reader Online is not a currently offered Vassar College CIS service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you know the person who appeared to have sent the message, call them and ask if they sent it. \u00a0It only takes a few minutes to verify if it is legitimate.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Report it as phishing to Google. \u00a0Before 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! \u00a0Be 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-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}