Cyber Security Awareness: How Phish Prone Are You?
Calvin.kissane
started a topic
almost 2 years ago
Colleagues,
Building on our #AREYOUPATCHEDGREEN and #THINKB4UCLICK Cyber
Security awareness campaigns, we also want to make staff and students aware of
the perils of Phishing.
What is Phishing?
The term phishing
relates to an attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames,
passwords and credit card details by pretending to be a trustworthy entity
in an electronic communication
It's basically a fraud
scam, whereby potential victims are contacted via email, instant
messaging, text message or by phone
Often, these messages
look like they are from a legitimate source, like a bank, a workplace,
utility company or mobile phone company
They can even going so
far as to use a company logo in the body of the email to make it look
official and to get you to divulge personal information
How to Spot a Phishing Attack?
Resulting from a very positive partnership between IT
Services and the Department of Technology Enhanced Learning, an interactive
game has been developed to help colleagues protect themselves, and CIT, from
Phishing attacks by understanding the risks. Some important points about this
game:
It is not mandatory, we
are hoping staff will engage to help protect themselves and CIT
Participation is not
being tracked, we will not know who has played the game
Calvin.kissane
Colleagues,
Building on our #AREYOUPATCHEDGREEN and #THINKB4UCLICK Cyber Security awareness campaigns, we also want to make staff and students aware of the perils of Phishing.
What is Phishing?
How to Spot a Phishing Attack?
Resulting from a very positive partnership between IT Services and the Department of Technology Enhanced Learning, an interactive game has been developed to help colleagues protect themselves, and CIT, from Phishing attacks by understanding the risks. Some important points about this game: