{"id":297,"date":"2016-05-09T14:45:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/?p=297"},"modified":"2016-05-17T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:15:46","slug":"password-change-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/2016\/05\/09\/password-change-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Password Change Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a number of members of the University community received a phishing email which requested personal details as well as their University user name and password, leaving those who responded exposed to identity theft. As a precautionary measure Computing Services have contacted those affected and requested the password on their University computer account is changed.<\/p>\n<p>Please check your University \/ Personal email and if you have received this email please follow the guidance within to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/account\/passwd\/change?\">change your password<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts which have not had their passwords changed by 31st May 2016 will automatically have their passwords scrambled.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any queries or experience difficulty changing your password please visit the Computing Services Service Desk on Level 2 of the library.<\/p>\n<p>Please note when you change your password you will need to update any devices you have set to autmatically download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/bucs\/services\/commsandcollab\/MobileClients.html\">email <\/a>or connect to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/bucs\/networking\/wireless\/index.html\">Eduroam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Tips for Internet Security<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The University will not ask you for your bank account details in an email.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t click through from links contained in an email, ensure you copy and paste the link into your web browser<\/li>\n<li>The University will only ask you to enter your user name, password and personal information into secure web pages hosted on the .bath.ac.uk domain<\/li>\n<li>Does the From: addresses match the organisation represented, e.g. appear to be from another university but claim to be the University of Bath<\/li>\n<li>When you hover over a link does it match the displayed organisation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Further information and guidance can be found on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/bucs\/email\/junkmail\/phishing.html\">malicious emails <\/a>web page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a number of members of the University community received a phishing email which requested personal details as well as their University user name and password, leaving those who responded exposed to identity theft. As a precautionary measure Computing Services...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[106,122],"tags":[118,20,104,28],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing","category-security","tag-it-security","tag-phishing","tag-staff","tag-students"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}