tax season

Be wary of identity theft tax scams

Tax season can be stressful. While the IRS has extended the tax filing deadline to May 17, which may alleviate some of that anxiety, you still need to worry about another thing – tax scams.  

During this time of year, especially as people are rushing to file their taxes, identity thieves purporting to be from the IRS are attempting to see what confidential information they can collect from...

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phishing skull

Security Alert: New phishing attempt

A new phishing email purporting to be an important email alert from Weill Cornell Medicine is circulating within the WCM community:

phishing attempt 

If you click on the link provided in the email, you are taken to a site that has...

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phishing

Did you find the phish?

Last week, ITS conducted an internal phishing exercise in order to gauge how well-prepared Weill Cornell Medicine is for an actual phishing attack, as well as to help educate anyone who may have fallen for the phishing attempt on how to avoid doing so in the future.  

Below is the email that was sent to everyone at WCM:

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