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"Your UMBC Feedback is Requested" Is A VALID Survey Request

Normally, these posts warn of various types of fraud and misdirection that try to mislead victims into giving up personal information and/or money. The Division of Information Technology (DoIT)...

September 27, 2021 · 4:50 PM

Job Phishing Alert: Department of Psychology

Another Day, Another Job Scam.

Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DOIT) received multiple reports of a job phishing email. The scammers sending these emails are impersonating Professor Cheah of the Department of...

September 26, 2021 · 9:25 PM

Phishing Alert: EMAIL ACCOUNT UPGRADE

DON'T CLICK! DON'T ENTER PASSWORD! CULTIVATE SUSPICION!

The Division of Information Technology( DoIT) recently received reports about an “account upgrade” phishing email. Below is an example of such an email. We removed the recipient’s information for...

September 26, 2021 · 9:20 PM

Seventeen tips to secure your phone

Advice From Smartphone Insight

Smartphone Insight has published a handy guide with step-by-step instructions to protect your IoS or Android phone data. With these 17 tips, your device will continuously be up to date. In...

September 26, 2021 · 9:15 PM

Account data breach: Epik

Epik Accounts Posted Online

On September 13, 2021, the domain registrar and web hosting company, Epik, suffered a data breach. This breach contained data for approximately 15 million Epik and non-Epik customers. Allegedly,...

September 26, 2021 · 9:13 PM

Default Intel Compiler set to 2020b

We have switched the default Intel compiler to the 2020b version. You will not need to do anything to use the new version, it is part of your default environment. The older versions of the Intel...

September 21, 2021 · 5:28 PM

REX Reports updated for counting of official enrollments

The following reports now allow for selecting all enrolled students or only "official enrolled" students, via a new "Official Enrollment" parameter. The default for this parameter will be ALL...

September 20, 2021 · 2:55 PM

New REX report : Unofficially Enrolled Students

New REX report : Unofficially Enrolled Students Folder : Student Records and Enrollment > Student Enrollment > Details This new report shows counts and specific students that make up...

September 17, 2021 · 2:45 PM

VoiceThread Assignments for Media Projects and Peer Critique

One Instructor’s Use Case and Lessons Learned

Shifting to teaching in online and hybrid formats has created opportunities to identify how students can share multimedia projects and receive feedback through peer critique. While various tools...

September 17, 2021 · 12:18 PM

A Phishing Scam With A Malicious Attachment

A Well-Designed Attempt to Gather Your Account and Password

DoIT received a report of a phishing scam that depends on the download and execution of an attachment. The message, as seen below, appears to come from Joel Avila, the CEO of Edwards Label in...

September 16, 2021 · 8:34 PM

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