DoIT Security

The DoIT Security Group assists all members of the UMBC community with any IT security questions and requests. Many questions can be answered via the submission of a Request Ticket, and, if necessary, a DoIT employee can be contacted for additional assistance.

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The DoIT Security Group posts notices and articles about threats, scams, and attacks on the IT Security – DoIT myUMBC group. In order to receive information as quickly as possible, we recommend that members of the UMBC community follow our group. Once followed, any new articles and notices will be automatically sent to the subscriber via email and myUMBC notification.

How to Follow

  1. Go to my.umbc.edu/groups/itsecurity
  2. Make sure you are logged into myUMBC.
  3. Click the Follow button, and select Notifications to All Updates.

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IT Security Notices

Firefox will mark all HTTP pages as 'not secure'

Retrieved from ZDNet - By: Catalin Cimpanu

Mozilla Firefox has announced that, like Google Chrome has done in the past, this coming October they will be introducing a "not secure" indicator for HTTP websites in Firefox Red more here:...

Posted: July 17, 2019, 9:19 AM

Instagram Account Vulnerability Earns Hacker $30,000

Retrieved from Security Week - By: Eduard Kovacs

Facebook awards researcher and ethical hacker, Laxman Muthiya $30,000 for discovering a critical vulnerability that hackers could have easily exploited to hack Instagram accounts. Read more...

Posted: July 15, 2019, 10:26 AM