In August 2022, the online feces delivery service ShitExpress suffered a data breach that exposed 24,000 unique email addresses. The addresses spanned invoices, gift cards, promotions and PayPal...
October 18, 2022
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3:57 PM
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Fraudster Impersonating UMBC Officials
This morning, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received a report of fraudulent emails sent to the University System of Maryland office.. The fraudster is forging the name of UMBC...
October 13, 2022
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11:49 AM
Another Scam
On October 4, 2022, a job offer was posted in at least one group on the MyUMBC site. The job offer was supposedly from Prof. Erika Fountain for "Administrative Assistants". This posting was an...
October 6, 2022
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7:21 PM
They Want Your Password
Recently, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) received a report of a phishing email that appeared to be crafted to attack users in the Computer Science department. The phishers are...
October 6, 2022
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12:02 PM
An Advisory From CISA
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has posted a warning about scammers pretending to be charitable agencies either soliciting contributions for hurricane victims or trying...
September 30, 2022
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2:18 PM
Another Fake Job Scam Pretending To Be From Prof. Hennigan
Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received multiple reports of job phishing emails from a Gmail account. The phishers are pretending to offer a research assistant job. Below...
September 20, 2022
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5:50 PM
PLEASE look for jobs at https://careers.umbc.edu/handshake/
Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received multiple reports of job phishing emails from a Gmail account. The phishers are pretending to offer a Part-Time Student...
September 16, 2022
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4:56 PM
Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received a report of job phishing emails from a Gmail account (nikkijoy39@gmail.com) . The phishers are pretending to offer a job as a...
September 6, 2022
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3:50 PM
MFA account security is optional now, but highly recommended
As part UMBC’s ongoing efforts to keep the campus safe online, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) will require that all students be enrolled in the campus’ Duo multi-factor...
August 22, 2022
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10:34 AM
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
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1:19 PM