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Webex Dial-in Service Restored

The dial in feature in Webex Meeting is now working agin

After working with Cisco's engineering team we have restored the dial in feature in Webex Meetings. This was restored around 10am this morning and all our testing appears positive. If you...

Posted: August 5, 2020, 4:06 PM

Webex Dial-in Feature Outage

DoIT is working with Cisco on the call-in function outage

DoIT has been made aware of a problem with the dial-in feature in Webex Meetings. The symptom is that when joining a meeting through the phone that users will receive an error of “You have dialed...

Posted: August 4, 2020, 12:44 PM

Account Data Breach: Dave

Data Breach On Digital Banking App

In June 2020,  Dave, a digital banking app, suffered a data breach. 7.5 million rows of data were leaked to the public on a hacking forum. The breach exposed individuals’ Personal Identifiable...

Posted: August 4, 2020, 10:34 AM

Mothur is now Installed on Taki

New Bioinformatics Software is available

We have installed the Mothur software on the Taki cluster. Documentation on the software is available here. This is available as a module on Taki.

Posted: August 3, 2020, 5:13 PM

Phishing Emails from SurveyMonkey

The Survey Site Is Legitimate. The Survey Is Not.

According to an article at https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com,  Abnormal Security recently discovered a new phishing campaign using malicious emails from a legitimate SurveyMonkey domain. A...

Posted: July 30, 2020, 4:37 PM