Below is a message from Stony Brook University’s CIO, Richard W. Reeder. If you receive an email asking for passwords of any kind, DO NOT RESPOND! Instead, forward the email to abuse@stonybrook.edu and move it to your junk folder.
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To The Campus Community,
Recently there has been a new wave of ‘Phishing’ emails directed to members of this University.
As with attacks of this kind, both in the past and very likely the future, the email requests that you reply to it with some amount of personal information.
The emails may look official and they will be formatted to appeal to you or in some cases threaten you with discontinuance of service if you do not reply with your password.
Please be aware that it is university policy that you will never be asked for critical personal information, particularly for your account passwords, via email.
In general, the IT services on campus, including Help Desk services, will never need your password for any reason.
If there is any doubt as to whether you should reply to an email that you are not comfortable with, please discuss the email with your local IT or Help Desk Services before replying.
Richard W. Reeder
Chief Information Officer, Div. of Information Technology
Stony Brook University
Phone 631-632-9085
Fax 631-632-2160
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