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New "Economic Relief" Phishing Email

Fake Small Business Administration (SBA) Loan Offer

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced a new phishing email campaign spoofing the Small Business Administration (SBA). This email has the subject “SBA Application –...

Posted: August 13, 2020, 11:47 AM

DoIT Offers Start of Semester Student Technology Sprints

Make sure you're tech "self-sufficient" to learn online

The start of semester is always busy, but especially during a global pandemic. We got through Spring 20, but since every student will likely have at least one online or hybrid Fall 20 course, the...

Posted: August 12, 2020, 9:05 PM

DocuSign Hourly Limit issue

Please be aware that the DocuSign system use had exceeded our vendor enforced limit of a 1,000 transactions per hour. It stopped creating envelope transactions for approximately 10 minutes from...

Posted: August 12, 2020, 12:15 PM

Another Fake Cisco Job Scam

The Scam That Keeps On Taking

Similar to other work from home phishing attempts targeting the UMBC community, this one follows the pattern. A malicious actor who claims to be from a company, in this case Cisco, offers the...

Posted: August 11, 2020, 10:27 PM

Account Data Breach: Chatbooks

A Data Breach Report

In March 2020, Chatbook, a photo print service, suffered a data breach. Approximately 15 million user records were put up for sale on a dark web marketplace. This information includes email...

Posted: August 11, 2020, 10:21 PM