Information Security
For your protection, academic computer labs and faculty/staff workstations are equipped with anti-virus software. These systems will automatically check for viruses and alert the University ITS Help Desk as required.
Virus Hoaxes
If you receive electronic mail claiming to be a virus warning, please forward the message to helpdesk@stockton.edu. Please do not send it to the campus community. Information Technology Services will investigate and will notify the campus.
Email is an ideal tool for conveying information to millions of people. This information can be useful, irrelevant (spam emails) or have malicious purposes (phishing). Cybercriminals have become very crafty to lure people into clicking on an attachment, a link or giving up their personal information. Emails can look like legitimate messages coming from a trusted source, such as your bank, a friend or a family member. Always check with the source (by phone or other means) before taking any action that may put you or your accounts at risk.
Spam
Spam email is the equivalent of receiving junk mail from businesses promoting their products and services.
Phishing
This type of email attempts to steal your personal information information and use it for malicious purposes. Cybercriminals can use your information to access bank accounts, open new credit cards or assume your identity.
- Spear phishing
Spear Phishing is directed at specific group of people or companies. For example, cybercriminals can launch an attack on a business to get customers' information. Then assume the business identity to launch an attack against the customers, making the emails look authentic, thus increasing the attacker's probability of success.
- Clone phishing
This happens when a legitimate, and previously delivered, email containing an attachment or link has its content and recipient address(es) taken and used to create an almost identical or cloned email. The attachment or link within the email is replaced with a malicious version and then sent from an email address spoofed t