Watch out for Phishing!

From the IT Group:

Recently there was a “Phishing” attempt sent to Keene State College faculty/staff email. “Phishing” is email spam sent by someone pretending to be an organization or person asking you to enter your personal and/or account information. If you respond to these emails, your information has been compromised.

It can be difficult to know what is legitimate email and what is phishing. Test your knowledge with this informative five-minute test - you may be surprised by what you know, and what you don’t.

At Keene State, the IT Group will never ask you to verify any information via email or any other electronic source - we already have that information. Legitimate financial institutions, the government, and the IT Group will not ask for personal information through email. You can always recognize a message from the IT Group because we use a standard email template when communicating with the campus. Critical campus-wide messages from us will always be addressed to the Outlook Global Address List (_GAL), and we will identify ourselves at the beginning of the message. Our messages always tell you to, “Contact the IT Group HelpDesk at 358-2532, email helpdesk@keene.edu, or stop by our office on the 2nd floor of Elliot Hall with questions concerning this or any other technology issue,” and our signature line provides location and contact information.

So don’t be fooled. Computer security is a partnership, and you need to be responsible for your computer security, too. Whenever you are in doubt, contact the IT Group HelpDesk. We can help! If you would like more information regarding Phishing and other helpful security information, please visit the HelpDesk website.