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Covid-19 Scams Are Still Active

Some More Tips To Identify Contact Tracing Scams

With Covid-19 being something we all face in our daily lives, malicious actors are not giving up on scamming people out of not only their personal and financial information, but are also trying to...

Posted: September 9, 2020, 8:09 PM

Covid-19 Contact Tracing Scams

Contact Tracing Scammers Are Still Active

With Covid-19 still very present in our day to day lives, many states have started to roll out contact tracing programs to help control the spread of disease. This is done by informing people who...

Posted: September 9, 2020, 7:52 PM

Job Scam "Internship" From A Compromised UMBC Account

Check The "Reply-To" Address

The job scam below was recently reported to DoIT. The subject of the email is just “Internship” and has a very short message as can be seen below. The name and email of the from and to fields were...

Posted: September 9, 2020, 7:42 PM

HPCF Update

Request for publications

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, This is my regular reminder, coming from the HPCF Governance Committee as well as from the PI/co-PIs of the NSF MRI grant that funded a lot of the...

Posted: September 9, 2020, 10:38 AM