DoIT's Technology Support Center will be closed from 12PM-2PM, Thursday, May 26th to allow our staff to attend our departmental staff meeting. If you need assistance during this time, we...
May 3, 2016
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9:31 AM
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On Tuesday April 26th, from 9:30-10:45 PM, the campus experienced a service outage on our centralized login system for myUMBC. During this time services that use UMBC's single sign on, including...
April 26, 2016
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11:30 PM
An idea to bring the campus together through technology
On Wednesday, March 9th DoIT’s Instructional Technology team sponsored a brand new event, known as TechFest. Located across three different rooms in the University Center and featuring over 10...
April 26, 2016
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10:33 AM
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
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