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UMBC Response to Heartbleed Security Incident

Issue potentially affects "https" web sites using Open SSL

A major security vulnerability named Heartbleed was disclosed Monday night.  The vulnerability affects a large portion of websites on the Internet, and here at UMBC, that use the "https:" protocol...

Posted: April 9, 2014, 7:40 PM

Classroom/Event Scheduling Downtime (R25)

Please note that the Classroom and Event scheduling system known as R25 will be down from 4-15-2014 through 4-17-2014. The downtime is needed to complete phase 1 of 2 for migrating the current...

Posted: April 9, 2014, 2:14 PM

Cyrus Mail Outage Tonight at 10pm

At 10pm tonight, Tuesday April 8th, there will be a 45min outage of the Cyrus mail system.  This outage is needed to patch a critical security vulnerability which has just been discovered.  In...

Posted: April 8, 2014, 4:33 PM

Change to Lab Profile

MyDocuments No Longer Available In The Labs

After Thursday, May 22, the My Documents folder on lab computers will be disabled for storing files. Instead, DoIT recommends using Box (box.umbc.edu) for storing all of your files.  Combined with...

Posted: April 4, 2014, 5:27 PM