{"id":981,"date":"2010-01-04T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/id\/?p=981"},"modified":"2010-01-04T14:20:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T13:20:22","slug":"caution-malicious-e-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/2010\/01\/04\/caution-malicious-e-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Caution, malicious e-mail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Never<\/strong> divulge your password by email! Only log in on absolutely reliable websites! In case of doubt ask your IT-support <strong>first<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At least 95% of all incoming email from outside the ETH is either spam, contains viruses or tries to get your login information (phishing = password fishing).<\/p>\n<p>On peak days our filter identifies up to 3.5 million of these unsolicited emails. While spam is usually harmless and is rejected in large quantities by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.ethz.ch\/id\/services\/list\/e_mail\/spamfilter\/index_EN\">spam filter<\/a> and viruses are usually removed by the virus scanner of our server or of your computer, we need <strong>you<\/strong> to take care of phishing mail!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there are still some people responding to phishing attacks. Those email accounts are then used to distribute spam. As a consequence of this, our mail servers could be blacklisted and mails from ETH may not be accepted any more. This means a lot of work for us and of course, we&#8217;d have to lock your mailbox!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s phishing messages are getting more and more subtle. It&#8217;s hard to identify them using a spam filter because they are designed for a specific service of a specific organisation. For you as email recipient, follow a simple rule to find out whether an email is a phishing mail or not:<\/p>\n<p><strong>No <\/strong>serious service provider will <strong>ever <\/strong>ask you for your username and your password! Even if an email looks legitimate and even if it claims that your mailbox will be locked: It certainly wasn&#8217;t sent by us!<\/p>\n<p>It is quite a bit harder to identify phishing mail tempting you to log in on a website in order to get your login-information. Treat these mails with <strong>suspicion<\/strong>! Is it an ETH website (ethz.ch)? Check the URL (web address) carefully! Does the page have a valid certificate? If in doubt, ask your <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.ethz.ch\/id\/about\/departments\/index_EN\">local IT-support office<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.ethz.ch\/id\/support\/index_EN\">IT Services Helpdesk<\/a> (27777).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never divulge your password by email! Only log in on absolutely reliable websites! In case of doubt ask your IT-support first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1285],"tags":[1330,1328],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-english","tag-phishing","tag-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}