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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