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Why You Should Be Using Eduroam
Benefits include one time login, security, and availability
Eduroam is a global Wi-Fi network that provides encrypted traffic for any device you use and features a one time setup process that can be used on any campus that supports eduroam, not just UMBC....
Posted: May 5, 2016, 2:29 PM
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
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