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OLC Ideate Labs for Online STEM: Innovating STEM Education 2020   With COVID pandemic, virtual labs are now a requirement rather than a "nice to have".  There are many technologies and...

The USM OnTrack website has been updated to include new Online Teaching Resources. USM has revamped the emergency remote teaching web resources shared last spring to focus on the pivot to...

In the article linked below, BBC News warns of different Covid-19 themed frauds and scams. Many malicious actors follow the headlines just like the rest of us, and when they see a crisis like...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...