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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

Content Editor Updates Enhance Announcements, Embedded Media

Ultra journals now included in course copy

The August Blackboard update introduces an enhanced text editor to the Ultra course announcement tool, allowing faculty to add and display more types of content, embed web links and media, and...

Posted: July 28, 2020, 11:43 AM

FA2020 Courses Created in Blackboard on July 27, 2020

Blackboard course shells for FA2020 were created on July 27, 2020. NOTE: In recognition of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing social distancing practices, UMBC’s fall session will mostly be online...

Posted: July 28, 2020, 11:23 AM