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Critical Vulnerability in Adobe Flash Affects Most Machines
A few days ago a critical vulnerability was announced within Adobe Flash Player that allows a machine to become infected with ransomware through a web browser. Ransomware is a type of malicious...
Posted: April 14, 2016, 9:29 AM
Phishing: Don’t Be Our Weak Link
Attacks are Becoming More Targeted. What should people do?
Phishing attacks have been a problem for many years. Typically, hackers have sent messages asking members of our community to click on a link or reply to an email message with a password. Their...
Posted: March 23, 2016, 2:56 PM
Review of DoIT Communications
Notification by DoIT Student Worker Was a Mistake
To The UMBC Campus Community, Recently a DoIT student employee contacted members of the campus that they may have a number of files on their computers containing personally identifiable...
Posted: September 10, 2015, 7:18 PM
Locating Our Confidential Data
Identity Finder is being installed to help reduce our risk.
In an effort to try and detect confidential data on university-owned systems and reduce the risk that UMBC will be the source of a data breach, UMBC has worked with the university system to...
Posted: June 9, 2015, 10:01 AM
Recent Phishing Email Messages
How to Identify and Report Phishing Messages.
UMBC has recently been the target of an increasing number of phishing messages. These phishing messages appear to come from the UMBC Division of Information Technology or another university...
Posted: April 28, 2015, 10:08 PM
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