Last week DoIT received several notifications of yet another part-time job scam arriving at email inboxes on our virtual campus. The To: field has been removed from the example for reasons of...
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) posted a guide, on April 13, 2020, about online scams exploiting people’s concerns about the COVID-19. The guide is available at:...
Scammers and hackers will use any way to get to you...
A group called FIN7 has been using a novel method to target victims. The attack is delivered through USPS mail, the kind that’s delivered into the real mailbox. The target gets a package in...
Scammers are impersonating people to get info and money.
On Monday, 4/13/2020, DoIT was notified by several members of the UMBC community about an e-mail message impersonating Dr. Scott Casper, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social...
A scam message (see below) was sent to about 80 UMBC email addresses on 4/15/2020. It’s a variation of a scam job offer we saw a few months ago. It is NOT from Cisco Systems. If you respond...
Scammers are finding new ways to get your info and money.
Any good scam, electronic or otherwise, works best when the victim is outside of their normal patterns of life. A phishing scam has been circulating that claims that you have been exposed to...
Just because it's on the web or offered doesn't make it real
The Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA) has issued a report on the presence of advertisements for medical supplies, including a vaccine for Covid-19 (as of 4/7/2020 there is no such vaccine). These...
DoIT has been made aware of several new phishing emails from the weekend: From: Dean Drake <ddrake.umbc.edu@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 4, 2020, 2:45 PM Subject: Re: Quick One To: <...
Yesterday morning, between 8:45am and 10:00am, several UMBC users received DocuSign messages offering access to a document called “News Update.pdf” with a button labeled “View Document Now”. ...
As we all work and study at home, we need to stay secure.
If you are part of the UMBC community and are reading this in the spring of 2020, then you are very likely working and/or teaching and/or learning from home over the Internet. In most cases, you...
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