It’s early evening, and you get an email from your college president saying she is at dinner with a potential donor and misplaced her credit card. You’re asked to pay for the bill electronically by clicking on a link in the email. But you notice the email didn’t come from the college’s system, but rather from a Yahoo account.
If you’re properly trained, you won’t click on the link but flag the email to report to your system manager, who should follow established protocols. If you’re not well-trained and you click on the link, well, you may have just opened a path for a thief to enter your college’s entire computer system, exposing personal information of students, employees and others.
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