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Quarterly patching downtime on 5/23/2020 and 5/28/2020

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Saturday, May 23rd and Thursday, May 28th.  While many of the...

Posted: May 19, 2020, 2:02 PM

Android Ransomware

Malicious Software Pretending To Provide COVID-19 Info

Android Ransomware DomainTools discovered that domain names associated with COVID-19 and Coronavirus have spiked in the past few weeks, and many of those domains are considered malicious. One...

Posted: May 18, 2020, 6:24 PM

COVID-19 Phishing Attacks

A review of different attacks exploiting COVID-19 fears

Tripwire has released an article warning of these COVID19-related phishing scams. This article can be found at this link:...

Posted: May 18, 2020, 6:17 PM

Phishing Attack Today Uses Fake Email Renewal Scam

Email Tries To Get The Reader To Log In At Fake UMBC Page

A fairly well-crafted phishing attack hit UMBC mail inboxes today.  It looks like this: The link takes the reader to a fake UMBC login page.  It does not look like our usual page,...

Posted: May 13, 2020, 1:17 PM