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Email marketing and the User-Agent-String

When What Looks Like Phishing Is Just Spam

Recently, DOIT received multiple reports of suspicious messages about student loans from email addresses with the format <emails@alert###.info>. The recipients of these messages marked them...

Posted: September 13, 2021, 2:45 PM

Synchronize Bb groups in Collab breakout groups coming soon!

Maintain student learning between course & live sessions

Breakout groups are a powerful engagement tool for active learning in a synchronous session, providing private audio, video, whiteboard, application sharing, and chat for small group...

Posted: September 7, 2021, 11:59 AM

Free Training for Respondus Lockdown Browser & Monitor

Join an upcoming webinar to see the latest features

Join an upcoming training webinar from Respondus to see the latest features and integrations for LockDown Browser and Monitor. Learn how these applications are used with a range of online testing...

Posted: September 1, 2021, 2:19 PM

SCAM: University of Maryland Personnel Retirement Support

Retirement Phishing Scam

During the past week, the Division of Technology(DOIT) has received phishing reports of scammers impersonating state-licensed retirement support representatives. Below is an example of such a...

Posted: August 25, 2021, 6:15 PM

taki downtime completed

To all taki users, Our work bringing the taki cluster environment up-to-date has concluded. Please begin normal use of the cluster environment. Please let us know if you have any questions...

Posted: August 24, 2021, 8:43 PM