{"id":100782,"date":"2025-04-15T12:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=100782"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:08:01","slug":"brock-its-offers-tips-to-avoid-online-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/04\/brock-its-offers-tips-to-avoid-online-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock ITS offers tips to avoid online manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock Information Technology Services (ITS) team is advising users to be aware of the ways cybercriminals use social engineering to target people, not just devices, in scams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/security\/social-engineering\/#:~:text=Security%20%20Social%20Engineering-,Social%20Engineering,-Social%20engineering%20is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social engineering<\/a> techniques used by cybercriminals \u2014 such as <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/service-catalogue\/security-and-access\/cyber-security-awareness-and-training\/phishing\/#:~:text=Cyber%20Security%20%20Phishing-,Phishing,-Phishing%20refers%20to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">phishing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/security\/social-engineering\/#:~:text=revealing%20sensitive%20information.-,Vishing,-%3A%20(voice%20or\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vishing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/security\/social-engineering\/#:~:text=or%20computer%20system.-,Deepfake%20Technology,-%3A%20Attackers%20use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deepfakes<\/a> \u2014 are designed to manipulate individuals into revealing sensitive information or clicking on a malicious link.<\/p>\n<p>These tactics create a sense of urgency to rush users into action or impersonate a trusted organization or individual to gain users\u2019 trust.<\/p>\n<p>By staying alert and informed, users can protect themselves and their information from cybercriminals. \u00a0Brock ITS advises users:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To avoid clicking on links or responding to messages from people they don\u2019t know.<\/li>\n<li>To verify messages by contacting organizations or individuals directly \u2014 without using the contact information in the email or message.<\/li>\n<li>To be careful about what they share online.<\/li>\n<li>To carefully assess emails or messages that seem unusual, suspicious or \u201ctoo good to be true.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brock community members can also reach out to ITS with questions or forward suspicious messages to <a href=\"mailto:itsecurity@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">itsecurity@brocku.ca<\/a> for the IT Security team to investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock Information Technology Services (ITS) team is advising users to be aware of the ways cybercriminals use social engineering to target people, not just devices, in scams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7],"tags":[5639,5331,7822,14435,737,14436,14434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100782"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100795,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100782\/revisions\/100795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}