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Gift Cards Phishing Scams
Another Variant Of A Common Scam
Recently DoIT has been notified of a phishing email scam where the malicious actor is impersonating a UMBC staff member. The name has been removed from the From for privacy reasons, but an example...
Posted: August 5, 2020, 5:59 PM
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
Recent Spear-phishing Emails
Faked Email Messages Looking For Your Phone Number
A new wave of Spear-phishing emails hit roughly 300 UMBC inboxes this weekend. An example is shown below, with the From field altered and the To field removed for privacy. There is no body in this...
Posted: July 30, 2020, 3:42 PM
Fake Job Offers from Corestaff
UMBC Community Gets More Fake Job Offers
Jobs phishing Alert: Corestaff During the past week, DOIT has received several notifications of phishing emails impersonating Corestaff. Below is a sample message that was sent to many UMBC...
Posted: July 30, 2020, 3:40 PM
WORK-FROM-HOME Phishing Email Scam
Job Scams, Checks, and Threats
UMBC continues to receive phishing email campaigns from a malicious actor pretending to be from either Cisco or Corestaff. This phishing email has the goal of not only getting users personal...
Posted: July 30, 2020, 3:36 PM
Recent Spear-phishing Emails
Phishers Want Your Phone Number
A new wave of Spear-phishing emails hit roughly 300 UMBC inboxes this weekend. An example is shown below, with the From field altered and the To field removed for privacy. There is no body in this...
Posted: July 28, 2020, 4:28 PM
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