MCC Daily Tribune

Tech Alert: New Email Quarantine Notifications

According to the FBI’s 2021 IC3 report, phishing scams account for nearly 22 percent of all data breaches. MCC continues to put measures in place to protect the College from cybercrime, but World Economic Forum studies show that up to 95% of cybersecurity breaches are due to human error. With the easy access to artificial intelligence through apps such as ChatGPT, phishing emails are now much more polished than they used to be. That requires greater vigilance on the part of every individual to more carefully scrutinize emails since red flags such as bad spelling and grammar are no longer something you can rely on to identify a phishing email.

New Email Quarantine Information
Microsoft has enhanced our security measures for Outlook and is directing some messages, identified as spam and/or phishing, to a quarantine for each MCC email account. You may receive email notifications from quarantine@messaging.microsoft.com about some of these emails. The notification has links to Review Message, Release, or Block Sender.  

Instead of clicking on the link in the email, you can login directly to the Microsoft Defender Portal to access your quarantine.

Ann Penwarden
Computing & Information Technology Services
05/15/2023