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Potential Account Data Breach: QuestionPro

Hackers attempt extortion with unverified database

In May 2022, the survey website QuestionPro was the target of an extortion attempt relating to an alleged data breach. Over 100GB of data containing 22 million unique email addresses (some of...

August 17, 2022 · 1:19 PM

Quarterly patching downtime - 8/19

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, August 19th. While many of the systems will be patched...

August 15, 2022 · 11:13 AM

Four More Faculty Earn Quality Matters Certification

Nine of 14 USM’s QM certified courses are from UMBC

After participating in rigorous peer reviews of their online and hybrid courses, four additional UMBC faculty have earned Quality Matters certification as part of the campus’ Quality Matters...

August 11, 2022 · 8:31 AM

Phishing Alert: Fake Announcement from ‘Admin Server’

Don't Click The Button!

Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received reports of a phishing email. The scammers sending these emails are using a forged From address of: 'Admin Server...

August 9, 2022 · 3:21 PM

Free Webinar Series: Teaching with Ultra, Basics to Advanced

Free training opportunities for faculty, TAs, and staff

The Bb Instructor Webinar Series offers free 45-minute webinars designed for instructors who are getting started with teaching using Blackboard Ultra and Collaborate. Topics include getting...

August 8, 2022 · 11:32 AM

IMPORTANT

RT(Request Tracker) scheduled downtime for 8-12-2022 at 5pm

RT will be down beginning 5pm on 8-12-2022 (Friday evening) until 8am on 8-13-2022 (Saturday morning). This downtime is needed to apply security and performance enhancements. Joe Kirby, AVP...

August 2, 2022 · 5:54 AM

Likely Phishing Website Found

It Looks Designed To Attack UMBC

The UMBC Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has been notified of a website that appears to have been set up for future phishing attacks on UMBC account holders. If you see a link or any...

July 29, 2022 · 4:58 PM

FA2022 Courses Created in Blackboard on July 28, 2022

Blackboard course shells for FA2022 were created on July 28, 2022. The Ultra Course Preview setting is again enabled in FA2022 courses, which allows faculty to convert a new Original course to...

July 29, 2022 · 8:13 AM

IMPORTANT

Software Services Restored

The AWS Regional outage that took down services like WebEx and Zoom earlier today has been resolved and all services should be restored. If you would like additional information about what...

July 28, 2022 · 4:53 PM

IMPORTANT

Disruption of Several Software Services This Afternoon

A number of services, including WebEX, Microsoft Teams and Zoom are having connectivity problems this afternoon. There is a fairly major outage within the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud platform...

July 28, 2022 · 1:48 PM

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