A few days ago a critical vulnerability was announced within Adobe Flash Player that allows a machine to become infected with ransomware through a web browser. Ransomware is a type of malicious...
April 14, 2016
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9:29 AM
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Attacks are Becoming More Targeted. What should people do?
Phishing attacks have been a problem for many years. Typically, hackers have sent messages asking members of our community to click on a link or reply to an email message with a password. Their...
March 23, 2016
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2:56 PM
Faculty, staff, and students have new productivity features
Thumbnail Image is from Box Blogpost In June 2015, DoIT announced Microsoft Office was now available to the entire UMBC campus. Now, Microsoft Office and Box have deeper integrations with each...
March 22, 2016
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12:39 PM
Deadline for lab software requests for Summer is April 1
In Fall 2016, all lab and lecture hall computers will be upgraded to Windows 10 Educational and OS X El Capitan with Microsoft Office 2016 installed for each system as well. Each semester, all lab...
March 21, 2016
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12:51 PM
UMBC’s Chief Information Officer shows how to tame Gmail
On March 9, 2016 DoIT’s instructional team hosted a new event called Techfest, an event that would bring the campus community together and present ways that technology can both support and...
March 21, 2016
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9:29 AM
As part of our quarterly security patching we will be patching parts of our campus web environment on Saturday March 12th beginning at 9:00am. We expect the patching to be completed by 12:00pm. ...
March 2, 2016
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4:28 PM
As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday March 11th beginning at 6:00pm. While many of the systems...
March 2, 2016
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4:25 PM
How Box.com Solved UAA's File Storage Dilemma
In the autumn of 2012, the Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE), a unit in the Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs (UAA), accepted the limitations of its shared drives, much like...
February 26, 2016
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5:03 PM
1st non-exempt, exempt EOQ recipients from same dept.
DoIT would like to recognize our own Pamela Raley and Ed Kelly for receiving the Employee of the Quarter (EOQ) award. The EOQ program recognizes the outstanding qualities and contributions of...
February 24, 2016
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1:03 PM
We will taking downtime this Saturday morning at 9:00am for MyUMBC, our sites and wiki web environment starting at 9am. We expect each system to be down for a few minutes, and all work should be...
February 19, 2016
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11:26 AM