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Taki Shutting Down 9/28 for a Day
Power repair work required at Taki location
Taki will be shutdown for some power work at the Research Park Computer room. Taki will be offline from 9/28 at 8 pm to 9/29 at 5 pm. All jobs will be terminated when Taki is shutdown, so please...
Posted: September 22, 2020, 11:37 AM
New Batch Group Management Tool Available in Bb Ultra
Custom solution works in both Ultra & Original courses
Group management is one of the most important tools in a Blackboard course. For large courses, group management is a critical component of assigning students to groups and managing engagement or...
Posted: September 18, 2020, 12:25 PM

Webex Breakout Sessions
Webex Meetings breakout sessions now available!
Cisco released an update to the Webex Meetings application to include Breakout Sessions within your Meetings. Here you can find information describing the features, roles, and a guide to using...
Posted: September 17, 2020, 2:12 PM
Use Blackboard's Ally Tool to Provide Accessible Content
Attend a product overview and demo on 9/30 from 2 - 3 p.m.
Overview and Demo: Using Ally to Provide Accessible Content Wednesday, September 30 from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Please attend an overview of Ally, Blackboard’s accessibility software...
Posted: September 14, 2020, 4:07 PM

"Email Configuration Error" Phishing Attack
Phishing Attack Masquerading As Email Delivery Problem
A phishing attack urging users to download undelivered emails was reported to DoIT Security this week. Here is an example of the malicious message. From: "umbc.edu System Administrator"...
Posted: September 11, 2020, 11:22 AM
Data Breach: LiveAuctioneers
Data Breach On Online Marketplace
On June 19, 2020 an online antique Marketplace, LiveAuctioneers, suffered a data breach. Approximately 3.4 million records were leaked. The records include names, email and IP addresses, physical...
Posted: September 11, 2020, 11:19 AM
Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2020
Free-of-charge all-videoconferencing edition on Wed Sept 30
OKLAHOMA SUPERCOMPUTING SYMPOSIUM 2020 Wed Sep 30 2020, 9:00am-5:00pm Central Time Our first all-videoconferencing edition! Contact: Henry Neeman (hneeman@ou.edu)...
Posted: September 10, 2020, 8:54 AM

Covid-19 Scams Are Still Active
Some More Tips To Identify Contact Tracing Scams
With Covid-19 being something we all face in our daily lives, malicious actors are not giving up on scamming people out of not only their personal and financial information, but are also trying to...
Posted: September 9, 2020, 8:09 PM
Covid-19 Contact Tracing Scams
Contact Tracing Scammers Are Still Active
With Covid-19 still very present in our day to day lives, many states have started to roll out contact tracing programs to help control the spread of disease. This is done by informing people who...
Posted: September 9, 2020, 7:52 PM
Job Scam "Internship" From A Compromised UMBC Account
Check The "Reply-To" Address
The job scam below was recently reported to DoIT. The subject of the email is just “Internship” and has a very short message as can be seen below. The name and email of the from and to fields were...
Posted: September 9, 2020, 7:42 PM
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