Tips for Preventing Phishing Attacks

The recent cyber attacks become more fierce and sophisticated. We keep receiving phishing emails. Some phishing emails masqueraded them as good as legitimate emails and are targeted at our users. Similar incident happened a couple of days ago that quite a number of staff members thought that a phishing email was a legitimate one from ICTO and responded to the email, therefore has disclosed their account information.

Reporting phishing emails

In order to prevent disclosure of account password or falling victim to such attacks, if you receive an email you are not sure about, please forward the suspicious email to @ or call the ICTO Help Desk at 8822 8600. ICTO will try her best to block the phishing emails from the campus systems and inform our user as soon as possible, so as to prevent others from falling into the Phishing attack.

What remedies should take if you have responded

If you have responded to a phishing email, please change your password as soon as possible by visiting http://www.umac.mo/icto/password_staff.html.

If your account has already been used by hacker, ICTO would disable your account temporarily and provide you with assistance as soon as possible, thus to minimize the lost.

IT Security Seminar on 26 August, 2015

In order to share knowledge about IT security, ICTO will arrange a seminar with the topic related to phishing prevention on ICTO IT Week. We have invited experts from NOD32 (Hong Kong) to introduce guidelines on safety network and computer usage. You are welcome to join the seminar!

Topic: How to avoid being phished?
Date: 26/08/2015
Morning Session: 11:00 – 12:00
Afternoon Session: 15:00 – 16:00
Venue: Student Activity Centre, E31-G019

Should you have any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact our Help Desk.

Help Desk
Location : Room 2085, 2/F, Central Teaching Building (E5), eMap
Telephone : 8822 8600
email : @

Information and Communication Technology Office