{"id":5075,"date":"2017-09-27T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:15","slug":"anti-phishing-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/27\/anti-phishing-course\/","title":{"rendered":"New anti-phishing education course available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SpearPhishing_socialmedia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5077 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SpearPhishing_socialmedia-e1506587249581.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn how to recognize and deal with phishing in a new 10-15 minute online course: \u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/maislinc.umich.edu\/maislinc\/app\/management\/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&amp;ActivityId=43577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look Before You Click. Beware of Phishing!<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (available in My LINC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anti-phishing education is more important than ever. According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apwg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the incidence of global phishing attacks increased by 65 percent from 2015 to 2016. The APWG recorded more phishing in 2016 than in any year since it began monitoring in 2004 (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.apwg.org\/reports\/apwg_trends_report_q4_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report, 4th quarter 2016<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our new course, you will learn how criminals use phishing, including spear phishing, to try to get you to reveal personal information and how to recognize clues that reveal phishing emails. The course details how to inspect links in suspicious emails, what to do if you are not sure about an email, and the corrective steps you should follow if you take the bait and fall victim to a phishing attack.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-phishing education is more important than ever. 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