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Privacy Legislation May Soon Affect Smaller Businesses

Retrieved from WeLiveSecurity - By: Lysa Myers

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Posted: June 21, 2019, 10:50 AM

Mozilla Patches Second Firefox Zero-Day

Retrieved from Security Week - By: Eduard Kovacs

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Posted: June 21, 2019, 10:48 AM

Phishing Campaign Impersonates DHS Alerts

Retrieved from Security Week - By: Ionut Arghire

Phishing Campaign Impersonates DHS Alerts

Posted: June 21, 2019, 10:45 AM

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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

Ongoing electrical work in Data Centers today and Saturday

Throughout the day today (Tuesday June 18th) electricians will be conducting maintenance in our backup data center located just off campus in the research park. During this work we do not expect...

Posted: June 18, 2019, 7:14 AM

REX unavailable tomorrow morning (6/8/19)

REX will be unavailable tomorrow morning from 6:30 to 7:30 for system maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Posted: June 7, 2019, 11:06 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