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Tips on Spotting Phishing Emails

Read Your Email, Then Read It Again For Red Flags

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has seen many different reports of Phishing and job scam emails sent to UMBC accounts. This article will list some helpful tips to spot phishing...

Posted: May 20, 2021, 8:20 PM

Tips on Spotting and Reporting Spam Text Messages

Phishing Using Text Messages or "Smishing"

Many of the scams we see at the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) are coming from emails but scammers do not only use emails to try and scam users out of their personal and financial...

Posted: May 20, 2021, 8:14 PM

Downtime Complete for taki

To all taki users, DoIT Staff have completed the scheduled downtime for the taki cluster environment. Users can begin using the computing hardware. As always, please let us know if you...

Posted: May 18, 2021, 6:12 PM

Quarterly patching downtimes - 5/27 & 6/5

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Thursday, May 27th and Saturday, June 5th.  While many of the...

Posted: May 18, 2021, 2:07 PM