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Read today’s Phish Tank scenario and if you get a similar email, be sure to follow the “what to know” advice. The phish: an email appears to be an official TU email (example: from the Office of the Provost, Office of Human Resources, etc.) asking for some Personally Identifiable Information (PII), for you, your staff […]

Read today’s Phish Tank scenario and if you get a similar email, be sure to follow the “what to know” advice. The phish: An email appears to be from the IT office or any other TU office that uses single sign-on (the university login process that requires your NetID and password to gain access). There […]

Read today’s Phish Tank scenario and if you get a similar email, be sure to follow the “what to know” advice. The phish: An email appears to be from the “Help Desk” or someone you know that says you must immediately click on links to prevent problems with your account. See an actual email example of […]

Read today’s Phish Tank scenario and if you get a similar email, be sure to follow the “what to know” advice. The phish: An urgent email appears to be from the IT office at Towson University, asking you to reply with your password because your account has been compromised or suspended due to inactivity. See […]

Every day this week, the Office of Technology Services (OTS) will provide a common phish scenario-examples that have actually tricked members of the TU community-along with advice on how to recognize and deal with phishing. Don’t fall for it! What is phishing? Phishing is an email sent by malicious hackers, designed to look like they […]