{"id":94,"date":"2015-09-19T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T13:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=94"},"modified":"2015-09-21T10:02:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T14:02:41","slug":"matthew-vassar-has-sent-you-a-file-google-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/matthew-vassar-has-sent-you-a-file-google-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Vassar has sent you a file (Google Docs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff; padding: 1px; margin: 1px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/09\/viewgoogledoc20150919.jpg\" alt=\"viewgoogledoc20150919\" width=\"650\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/09\/viewgoogledoc20150919.jpg 650w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/09\/viewgoogledoc20150919-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/09\/viewgoogledoc20150919-500x296.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><!--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;\">Vassar uses Google Drive frequently to view documents.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The body of the email looks exactly like a valid Google Drive invitation.<\/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 Google.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The link opens to a site with multiple providers, including Adobe and Google.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When viewing this message in Google and clicking on a valid Google Drive share, you would never have to choose Google from a menu or input your login name and password again.<\/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-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}