Spotting dodgy emails – be in the know in just 15 minutes
04 Aug 2017
Take our online phishing awareness course and learn how to spot the difference between fact and fake, in less than 15 minutes
It’s incredibly easy to get caught out by a well-crafted scam email campaign as many of you may know. We offer a short online course to help you spot emails of this type referred to as ‘phishing’.
A phishing attempt is an email that tries to trick the recipient into giving out passwords, bank account details or other personal information, or into going to websites made to look exactly like the University web page.
While some of these emails are easy to identify, many are difficult to recognise because they appear authentic down to the last detail.
Being tricked by one of these emails doesn’t just make your own personal information vulnerable. It puts the entire University at risk because of the potential for scammers to gain access to systems inside the University’s firewall. This may compromise other peoples personal information stored on our systems – a colleague’s bank details, sensitive student information or valuable research data.
Even if you think you have nothing of importance on your computer, you make the University’s entire network more vulnerable if you click on a link in a phishing email.
All of us – staff and students – need to be vigilant of these attacks and take steps to ensure they do not succeed. Completing the course takes less than 15 minutes and could mean the difference between losing your valuable personal information or protecting it and the University.
Book yourself on to this course through the training catalogue:
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IT Services Training team