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If it seems weird, it is. Don't do it.
For several years, UMBC's Division of Information Technology has received reports of gift card scams. Recently, some of these scams have been sent as text messages to personal phones, falsely...
July 31, 2024
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9:02 PM
Scammers get creative
Recently the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) received notification of two phishing campaigns at other universities. While neither of these has been reported at UMBC, we are posting this...
January 6, 2023
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4:44 PM
As we prepare for the winter break, we commonly see a surge in malicious activity toward user accounts. Users receive emails warning about unpaid invoices, expired passwords, or full inboxes....
December 22, 2022
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1:44 PM
Hackers list database of 5.4 million records for sale
In January 2022, a vulnerability in Twitter's platform allowed an attacker to build a database of email addresses and phone numbers of millions of users of the social platform. In a disclosure...
October 19, 2022
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3:23 PM
Millions of records exposed from an adult cam site
In November 2021, the live sex cams and adult chat website StripChat left several databases exposed and unsecured. In June the following year, over 65 million StripChat records appeared on a...
October 19, 2022
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3:03 PM
Shared data has already been used in attacks
In June 2020, the web development site SitePoint suffered a data breach that exposed over one million customer records. Impacted data included email and IP addresses, names, usernames, bios and...
October 18, 2022
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4:05 PM
In August 2022, the online feces delivery service ShitExpress suffered a data breach that exposed 24,000 unique email addresses. The addresses spanned invoices, gift cards, promotions and PayPal...
October 18, 2022
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3:57 PM
Fraudster Impersonating UMBC Officials
This morning, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received a report of fraudulent emails sent to the University System of Maryland office.. The fraudster is forging the name of UMBC...
October 13, 2022
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11:49 AM
Another Scam
On October 4, 2022, a job offer was posted in at least one group on the MyUMBC site. The job offer was supposedly from Prof. Erika Fountain for "Administrative Assistants". This posting was an...
October 6, 2022
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7:21 PM
They Want Your Password
Recently, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) received a report of a phishing email that appeared to be crafted to attack users in the Computer Science department. The phishers are...
October 6, 2022
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12:02 PM