Observed every October, the annual Cyber Security Awareness Month is committed to encouraging personal accountability, securing behaviors, and maintaining digital privacy in the cybersecurity landscape. This initiative was created as a joint effort between government and industry providing resources to stay safe and secure online.
This October we are focusing on keeping it simple and following good security habits.
Phishing
Watch this funny video Phishing Song (by GetCyberSafe CSE) that talks about how to spot a phishing attempt and what you can do to "ruin a cyber criminal's day".
Before you Delete a Phishing Message, please Report it using the Report Phishing button in Outlook
How to Report Phishing
Suffolk email filters remove most malicious emails but some get through. This is where we need your help to spot phishing and report it.
What you can do when you know or think an email is phishing is to please report the message in Outlook. Reporting a message as phishing updates our filtering and can potentially protect other users' inboxes from the same or similar message.
To report phishing in Outlook online and desktop Outlook on Windows and Mac.
Select the email you want to report as phishing,
then click the Report button in your toolbar,
then select Report phishing.
(You can find the toolbar directly above your inbox which includes commonly used actions like deleting or marking items as read. See the image below)
Can’t find the report button? Depending on your toolbar’s layout, Report may be hidden under a three-dots menu or dropdown menu. Also note you can customize your toolbar to rearrange your toolbar buttons to make it easier in the future to find.
If you are using Outlook mobile app, tap the three-dots menu at the top of the message. In the dropdown menu, tap “Report” then select “Report Phishing"
What’s the difference between junk and phishing and what happens when I report it?
If you have this question, you’re not alone.
“Junk” is another email word for spam or unsolicited unwanted email. Phishing, on the other hand, is malicious email meant to steal or trick you into sharing credentials, personal information, or money.
When you “Report Junk” the message is moved to your Junk Email folder. You still have access to the email and future similar emails are routed to your Junk Email folder.
When you “Report Phishing” Outlook deletes the message from your inbox and it is reported to our Office 365 environment for tuning our filtering potential new similar bad messages.
Want to see if you can spot a phish?
Visit the google phishing quiz site.
https://phishingquiz.withgoogle.com/
Observed every October, the annual Cyber Security Awareness Month is committed to encouraging personal accountability, securing behaviors, and maintaining digital privacy in the cybersecurity landscape. This initiative was created as a joint effort between government and industry providing resources to stay safe and secure online.