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6/20/19 NASA Hack Used a Raspberry Pi Senator Asks NIST to Propose Secure Data Sharing Methods Ransomware attack on software company ResiDex may have exposed data on assisted-living residents,...

Posted: June 21, 2019, 10:41 AM

All clear from the electrical work yesterday

The research park power electrical work was completed yesterday late in the afternoon. During the outage all of our equipment stayed operational and there were no unplanned disruptions in...

Posted: June 19, 2019, 8:44 AM

Taki Online

The taki cluster is recovering from the downtime due to this week’s scheduled power maintenance. As we bring the partitions up, users can now access the log-in node as well as research storage....

Posted: June 19, 2019, 8:29 AM

Scheduled Downtime

Due to scheduled maintenance on the HPC power distribution units in the Research Park Data Center, we will be cancelling all jobs and powering-off the taki cluster at 5pm on June 17. We plan to...

Posted: June 18, 2019, 9:40 AM

Interruption to Campus Services around 3:20pm today

This afternoon, at around 3:20pm, we suffered a power outage to one of the racks in the computer room in Engineering. This rack holds key equipment that provides data storage for a good number of...

Posted: June 5, 2019, 4:58 PM

Delegated Grading, Import Calendars Come to Ultra in June

Learn what’s coming to Ultra & Collaborate next month

The June update to Blackboard brings delegated grading to Ultra courses. Renamed “parallel marking” in Ultra, this feature is designed to minimize bias when paired with anonymous grading. Parallel...

Posted: May 30, 2019, 1:25 PM

DoIT to Auto-enroll all New Employees in Duo 2-factor Login

Reminder: Faculty Deadline Updated to 9/30/19

As part of the recent initiative to convert all staff to Duo (umbc.edu/go/duo), the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) will be automatically requiring Duo for new employees, starting...

Posted: May 30, 2019, 10:34 AM

Quarterly patching downtime on 5/23/2019 and 6/1/2019

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Thursday, May 23rd and Saturday, June 1st.  While many of the...

Posted: May 13, 2019, 1:39 PM