{"id":235,"date":"2009-10-30T10:43:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T16:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/bioit\/?p=235"},"modified":"2023-08-10T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:10:45","slug":"facebook-phishing-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/facebook-phishing-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Phishing Attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received this friendly reminder from ACNS regarding some new Facebook Phishing attempts that are circulating.\u00a0 Please be sure to treat all strange e-mails with a dash of skeptisism and follow up on their link to &#8220;Dirty Dozen Clues To Avoid Phishing Attempts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now that we\u2019re all back at work with driveways cleared of snow, it\u2019s time to realize that the weather didn\u2019t stop the spammers and phishers. While I try not to fill your inboxes with warnings about every single phishing attempt, this one is widespread enough that I thought it warranted a note.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is experiencing a fairly large-scale password-reset exploit. Spammers are sending out notices for people to reset their password, or notifying people that their password has already been changed and is attached as a document. CSU has seen some of the second version, encouraging the user to open the password attachment.<\/p>\n<p>Please take this opportunity to remind your users of good email self-policing behavior:<\/p>\n<p>1) Be suspicious of all attachments, even from people you know<br \/>\n2) Never reply to an email asking for your username and password<br \/>\n3) Never open an attachment that claims to contain your password<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received this friendly reminder from ACNS regarding some new Facebook Phishing attempts that are circulating.\u00a0 Please be sure to treat all strange e-mails with a dash of skeptisism and follow up on their link to &#8220;Dirty Dozen Clues To Avoid Phishing Attempts&#8221;. &#8220;Now that we\u2019re all back at work with driveways cleared of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4883,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/4883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}