{"id":374,"date":"2022-07-27T20:41:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T20:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lvc.edu\/offices\/information-technology\/antivirus-spyware\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:23:23","slug":"technology-safety-security","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lvc.edu\/offices\/information-technology\/technology-safety-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Safety &amp; Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<section\n    class=\"\n        basic-hero\n                    basic-hero--no-image\n            \"\n    >\n        <div class=\"basic-hero__inner\">\n        <h1 class=\"basic-hero__heading\">\n            <div class=\"basic-hero__heading-text-container\">\n                                    <span class=\"basic-hero__heading-text \">Technology Safety &amp; Security<\/span>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/h1>\n        <div class=\"basic-hero__breadcrumbs\">\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section\n    class=\"body body--white body--line-left body--line-left-yellow body--line-left-full \"\n    >\n    <div class=\"body__container\">\n                    <div class=\"body__heading\">Phishing<\/div>\n                <div class=\"body__content\">\n            <p>Colleges are often targets of phishing emails, especially during busier times of year.\u00a0 It is important to be mindful of what links you are clicking and what you are sharing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Tips for spotting a phishing email<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mismatched email address<\/strong>: Check that the email address displayed in the &#8220;From&#8221; section matches the sender&#8217;s name and email address.\u00a0 Employees of LVC should only be communicating with you through their @lvc.edu email address.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Urgent requests<\/strong>: Phishing attacks will want you to rush into action before verifying the request, so they often appear to come from someone of authority, like the president, provost, or Ó³»­´«Ã½ Resources.\u00a0 These requests are often seen asking for important student or employee information or requests to purchase gift cards.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bad spelling &amp; grammar<\/strong>: These emails are often hastily put together, with spelling and grammar mistakes.\u00a0 They may have been run through a translator and have strange wording.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Too good to be true<\/strong>: If a link or email is offering you something too good to be true, it most likely is.\u00a0 Verify with a quick search online, or reach out to the <a href=\"mailto:solutions@lvc.edu\">IT Solutions Center<\/a> to have us check into it for you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Account alerts<\/strong>: You will never need to verify your account or click a link to renew your account.\u00a0 LVC will only send account reminder emails for your LVC username and password, beginning 14 days before your password expires.\u00a0 Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lvc.edu\/offices\/information-technology\/passwords\/\">Passwords<\/a> page for information on password changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>What to do if you receive a suspicious email<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Verify the request<\/strong>: Reach out to the employee directly by phone to see if the request is legitimate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Report the email<\/strong>: Report the email via the Phish Alert Report button in Outlook or forward the email to our <a href=\"mailto:phishing@lvc.edu\">Infrastructure &amp; Security team<\/a>, so they can investigate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Delete the message<\/strong>: After you&#8217;ve forwarded the message to us, please delete it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n        <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n<section\n    class=\"body body--gray \"\n    >\n    <div class=\"body__container\">\n                    <div class=\"body__heading\">IT Solutions Center<\/div>\n                <div class=\"body__content\">\n            <ul>\n<li><strong>Fall &amp; Spring Hours:<\/strong> Monday\u2013Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Closed Saturday &amp; Sunday)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Summer Hours: <\/strong>Monday\u2013Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Closed Saturday &amp; Sunday)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Office Location: <\/strong>Clyde A. Lynch &#8217;18 Memorial Hall, Suite 004<\/li>\n<li><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:solutions@lvc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solutions@lvc.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Phone: <\/strong>717-867-6072<\/li>\n<li><strong>Text: <\/strong>717-685-5820<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n        <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":341,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-374","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"section_menu":452,"language":"en","alternate_language_urls":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lvc.edu\/offices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lvc.edu\/offices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lvc.edu\/offices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lvc.edu\/offices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lvc.edu\/offices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lvc.edu\/offices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3303,"href":"https:\/\/www.lvc.edu\/offices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions\/3303"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lvc.edu\/offices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lvc.edu\/offices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}