Posted: Fri 3 Nov 2017, 11:32am.
This week has seen a rise in targeted phishing emails received by staff at the University. While many spam messages are caught by the filters run by IT Services, some will inevitably get through. According to Symantec, “More than half of inbound business email traffic was spam in 2015”.
Many spam messages can easily be identified and deleted. However, carefully prepared phishing emails (that is, messages that are sent to try to steal your personal or financial information) can be much more difficult to spot.
You can find information about phishing messages on this page on the IT Services website, and the latest threats that have been reported to the IT Service Desk are listed on right hand side of this page.
Here is some general guidance in spotting phishing emails:
If you are ever unsure whether a message is genuine, you can forward it to the IT Service Desk – support@sussex.ac.uk – to be checked.
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