Tips to Avoid ID Theft on Campus
Simple Ways To Secure Your Identity
With classes starting back up, malicious actors will try even harder to steal people's information or commit Identity theft. The article that is linked below has some tips for college students to help avoid Identity theft by monitoring your inbox and detecting fraud.
Here are some of the tips that are recommended for college students:
Send sensitive mail to your permanent home or post office box. Sending your more sensitive mail to a PO box or permanent home is considered much more secure.
Important documents should be stored away safely. Make sure documents like your Social Security card, passport, and bank and credit card statements are stored securely. As well to often shred credit card offers and any other paper document that has sensitive financial information.
Never lend your card or debit card to anyone. If you feel uncomfortable about lending your card just say no. This includes lending your card to a friend, or co-signing for a loan or financing for items like a TV. Also at an ATM making sure that no one is ‘shoulder surfing’ your PIN.
Guard your passwords. Do not give out your passwords to anyone, use strong passwords and do not use the same password for multiple accounts.
Watch out for phishing emails. Be careful not to click on links in unsolicited emails and texts. For more information on phishing email campaigns that could affect UMBC please check out the DoIT Security page main page for more updated information.
Make sure that your computer is up-to-date with antivirus and spyware softwares. Always install any updates and patches to your computer's operating system or browser software. These will help to keep your computer safe from malicious softwares.
Be careful while shopping online. For more information on tips to safely online please check out this article from the Better Business Bureau, https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/22474-bbb-warning-be-careful-purchasing-from-unknown-websites-during-covid-19
Check your credit report at least once a year. According to the article you are entitled to one free report a year from each of the tree reporting bureaus: TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax. Look for any suspicious activity or inaccuracies. For more information on this please check the BBB article linked below, this article by the Federal Trade Commision (FTC), https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0155-free-credit-reports.
If you do receive any email that you suspect is a scam, please do not click on any URL or reply. Either of those actions confirms to the sender that your email address is valid. Please forward the message (with the email headers) to security@umbc.edu.
How do I forward full email headers?
https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970
For more information, please check out:
https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/10496-bbb-9-tips-to-avoid-id-theft-on-campus
To read more articles published by DOIT visit:
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?tag=notice.
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/home/covid-19-news/?tag=covid19
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Fresh Garden Recipes
With the start of the semester, everyone is pressed for time. Are you looking for quick, easy recipes and ways to use your fresh garden veggies? Look no further! Fresh Garden Recipes with 5 Ingredients or Less will help you put meals on the table in no time!
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“WorkStudy Update!” Job Phishing Scam
Same Scam, Different Details
The UMBC DoIT has been notified of a compromised UMBC account used to send out phishing emails. An example of the email chain is shown below. The name and email address of the compromised UMBC account have been removed for privacy reasons, as well as the name of the user who reported the email.
Initial Scam Message
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From: COMPROMISED ACCOUNT <@umbc.edu>
Date: Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 7:47 AM
Subject: WorkStudy Update!
To:
Good morning!
My name is <COMPROMISED ACCOUNT>and i currently work with the UMBC educational planning center and i would like to inform you that there is a job opening opportunity available to you, This opportunity is only part time and is not expected to clash with your current school/study schedule.Kindly send in an instant reply if you are in search of a job so you can receive further information..
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Follow-up Scam Message
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From: career management jobs <careerjobsdepartment@outlook.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: WorkStudy Update!
To: <@umbc.edu>
Hello <NAME>
Thank you for your interest in the available job position, kindly
click on the URL below to view the application portal
https://tinyurl .com/JOB-UPDATE
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The first email is similar to a recent trend in phishing campaigns that we have recently seen, except this one uses the compromised account holder’s name in the email message and has changed the subject to “WorkStudy Update!” These campaigns, even if sent from different users with different subjects do seem to have a pattern of using “WorkStudy” in the subject as well as having a similar email format for both messages.
If the user does respond to the first message showing interest, they will receive the second message from a different email address. This is because in the email headers of the first email from the UMBC account, the reply-to is set to the <careerjobsdepartment@outlook.com> so instead of the user emailing the <@umbc.edu> email they are emailing the scammer directly.
The second email contains a link to a malicious site. If you do receive this email please do not click on the URL. In previous similar scams, the scammer is seeking personal information such as name, phone number, email address, home address, age and current occupation. It also invites the user to ‘tell a bit about themselves’ in a free-form text box.
If you do receive this or any other email that you suspect is a scam, please do not click on any URL or reply. Either of those actions confirms to the sender that your email address is valid. Please forward the message (with the email headers) to security@umbc.edu.
How do I forward full email headers?
https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970
To read more articles published by DOIT visit:
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?tag=notice.
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Involvement Fest
Come Meet Us at Involvement Fest
Our "booth" for involvement fest will be held in our webex room on September 9th from 12-2 PM. Be sure to stop by to learn more about our club and meet some of our lovely e-board members.
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Password protection & automated test feedback come to Ultra
Enhancements to Collaborate, gradebook & announcement tools
Password protection and automated feedback are two assessment tools coming to Ultra in September. These valuable features enhance the instructor's ability to secure assessments and provide just-in-time feedback to students as they take and complete tests in a course.
In an Ultra course, instructors will be able to add a randomly-generated passcode to their test. Since students must enter the password each time they start or continue an assessment, faculty can leverage test settings and the passcode to hide answers and restrict access to tests. The passcode prevents students from taking or submitting assessments after a due date has passed, but allows them to view their grades and feedback.
Automated feedback allow faculty to enter feedback for correct and incorrect answers on auto-graded question types (such as True/False) on an Ultra test. Students will automatically receive the feedback when they submit the assessment. Feedback from Original tests will also convert to Ultra except when it involves images, files or web links. The first generation of automated feedback must be enabled question by question. Future work will support feedback at the individual answer choices.
Additional updates for Ultra in September include:
- Blackboard added the ability to send course announcements by email to the entire class roster. As with Original courses, scheduled announcements cannot be emailed.
- The new student view in the Ultra gradebook allows faculty to see a row for each student instead of a row for each gradebook item. Each row will include date of last access date and CampusID.
Finally, Collaborate's September update, which comes in mid-September, will include includes private recording links by default to provide additional security. Previously recorded sessions will remain public unless you make them private. Additionally, Collaborate will remind moderators to start recording the session.
The next Blackboard Learn update will be posted to our test site around September 8 and pushed to production around October 1, 2020. Faculty who are interested in test driving new features before they are released to production should open an RT ticket to request early access.
As always, if you have any questions, please consider the following options:
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Undergraduate Ellen Gulian is Researcher of the Week
Ellen Gulian is a senior, with a double major in physics and mathematics, and a minor in computer science. She is a Meyerhoff Scholar (M29), two-time URA Scholar, and LSAMP Scholar.
What research experiences have you had? In addition to my URA project and my work at UMBC, I have participated in three physics REU programs: one at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (2018), one at Texas A&M University’s Cyclotron Institute (2019), and one at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2020).
Title of your URA research project: Studying 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides using Density Functional Theory.
Describe your project: 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of materials whose electronic and optical properties make them promising materials for devices like optical detectors and solar cells, and they can even have potential applications in quantum computing. In my project, I aim to use density functional theory, a quantum-mechanical computational tool, to study how these materials interact with their environment. Since these are 2D materials, they are exposed to their environment on all sides, and understanding the effects of this interaction can be vital when it comes to determining how we can use these materials in various devices. In particular, I will be using the Vienna Ab-initio Software Package (VASP) to investigate how introducing defects to monolayer TMDs, modifying the dielectric environment of the TMD, and placing various molecules on top of the monolayer changes the properties of the system.
Who is your mentor for your project? Dr. Michael Hayden, Department of Physics. During my first semester at UMBC, Dr. Hayden invited me to attend his lab meetings, and I found that I was very interested in the research that his group was working on. I also found Dr. Hayden to be very friendly and outgoing, and I enjoyed the culture of his lab group a lot. I joined Dr. Hayden’s research group during my second semester at UMBC.
How did you become interested in this project? When I first started in Dr. Hayden’s lab, my work was primarily experimental. I learned how to prepare thin-film samples of electro-optic polymers, make non-linear optical measurements, and also contributed to a joint research effort with the Army Research Lab that involved developing a sensor to detect defects in armor coating. Though I learned much through these projects, my interests and skills in physics evolved over time, and at the end of my sophomore year, I realized that what I wanted most was to work on a more theoretical research project that allowed me to synthesize my skills in physics, mathematics, and computer science. Dr. Hayden, in collaboration with Dr. Can Ataca’s research group, was able to come up with a project for me that was computational in nature but still relevant to the objectives of his lab group, and I started working on that project in my junior year.
What have been the hardest parts about your research? One of the hardest parts of my research, and I think research in general, is developing intuition. In my research, sometimes a calculation will crash or terminate with some error code, and you need to be able to figure out what went wrong and determine how to fix the problem. In addition, depending on what type of calculation you want to do and what level of theory you are trying to use, you need to know the proper parameters to input to the computer, and when you’re examining the results of your calculations, you need to be able to determine when something looks “off” or when something cannot be physically correct. All of this requires some level of intuition regarding the physics of the problem you are considering, as well as a good understanding of how the software works.
What was the most unexpected thing about being a researcher? I think the most unexpected thing about being a researcher, and perhaps something that’s a little uncomfortable at first, is that you can’t be completely prepared for your projects. From my work with Dr. Hayden and my work at various summer REU programs, I’ve learned that doing research means you pick up concepts as you go; it’s simply not realistic to think that you can learn all the prerequisites before starting a project. You’ll always encounter something that you haven’t seen before, and you need to learn how to deal with that in an efficient and effective way.
What have been the most rewarding and exciting parts of the research? A lot of the time, computational work can feel like a black box - you use the tools and the software, but you don’t completely understand why or how it works. Personally, I’ve found that a strong understanding of the tools and methods used in a project gives me a greater appreciation of the research. Thus, I spent much of my time learning the fundamentals of density functional theory by reading papers and learning about the software through documentation, which has been a very rewarding experience. In addition, my project this year allows me to collaborate with a graduate student in our lab (Jon Gustafson), who is currently observing possible effects of air reacting with sulfur vacancies in monolayer MoS2 (a TMD). Having computational results from my DFT calculations will help us better determine possible mechanisms for these reactions, and I think it’s exciting to see how theory and experiment complement one another.
How will you disseminate your research? I will be presenting my research at URCAD this April, and will also be looking to present at specialized (virtual) conferences throughout the year. From our preliminary results, we are also expecting a journal publication in the upcoming months.
What is your advice to other students about getting involved in research? Don’t be shy about reaching out to potential research mentors early, even if you’re a freshman. You don’t have to make any commitments right away – you can just go to their lab meetings and see what the group is like and whether you’re really interested in the work. Also, look into summer research programs that you can apply for at other universities.
What are your career goals? I’m applying to graduate programs in physics this fall. My goal is to earn my Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics, and I’m especially interested in quantum materials and superconductivity. After getting my PhD, I plan on becoming a professor at a research university, where I can teach courses and start my own research group!
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ATTN: Employees in the State Pension Retirement System
The Summer 2020 Mentor newsletter is now available!
"The Mentor" is the MD State Retirement & Pension Agency's seasonal newsletter for active members. The newsletter provides news, information, and legislative updates.
Have you signed up for your mySRPS account? The newsletter provides valuable information to active members about how to access their Personal Statement of Benefits, register for mySRPS access and much more!
Please note: The Pension Agency no longer mails Personal Statement of Benefits to members' home address, members must create a mySRPS account to view their Personal Statement of Benefits.
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Motivational Monday TEDx of the Week
"10 ways to have a better conversation.”
Looking for a dose of inspiration to start your week? No need to look any further. Each week, we curate talks on topics that matter NOW for all of us related to resilience, self-care, dealing with uncertain times, as well as ways to stay connected, inspired, and grounded when the earth beneath us is shifting.
Today's talk is 10 ways to have a better conversation by Celeste Headlee. When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations -- and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. In this insightful talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations. "Go out, talk to people, listen to people," she says. "And, most importantly, be prepared to be amazed."
After you watch, we invite you to reflect on the following:
- What resonated for you in the video?
- What lived experiences do you have, either personally or professionally that align with the core message of the talk?
- As you think of your role as a student, employee, or manager what feels relevant and useful to remember?
- What are you taking away that feels meaningful - either a new perspective, a potential action, etc.
- How might we take better care of ourselves and each other during this time?
If you're a supervisor, consider using this talk for team building purposes! You might send the video ahead of your meeting with several reflection questions on which you'd like your staff to come prepared to speak.
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Motivational Monday TEDx of the Week
"10 ways to have a better conversation.”
Looking for a dose of inspiration to start your week? No need to look any further. Each week, we curate talks on topics that matter NOW for all of us related to resilience, self-care, dealing with uncertain times, as well as ways to stay connected, inspired, and grounded when the earth beneath us is shifting.
Today's talk is 10 ways to have a better conversation by Celeste Headlee. When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations -- and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. In this insightful talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations. "Go out, talk to people, listen to people," she says. "And, most importantly, be prepared to be amazed."
After you watch, we invite you to reflect on the following:
- What resonated for you in the video?
- What lived experiences do you have, either personally or professionally that align with the core message of the talk?
- As you think of your role as a student, employee, or manager what feels relevant and useful to remember?
- What are you taking away that feels meaningful - either a new perspective, a potential action, etc.
- How might we take better care of ourselves and each other during this time?
If you're a supervisor, consider using this talk for team building purposes! You might send the video ahead of your meeting with several reflection questions on which you'd like your staff to come prepared to speak.
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Join UMBC Mock Trial!
Hello, Political Science students! UMBC Mock Trial
wants you to join one of the most successful Mock Trial programs in the
country! Do you want to join an activity that’s fun and challenging? Do you
want to work on or show off your public speaking or acting abilities? Do you
want to make close, meaningful friendships? If you do, then UMBC Mock Trial is
the place for you.
UMBC Mock Trial is the top-ranked Mock Trial team in the
state of Maryland and is ranked in the top-25 nationwide (out of 750+ teams). We've
advanced to the National Championship in three of the last four years. Our
teams travel all over the country and win awards at the best tournaments
nationwide. We’re looking for new members to help get us to Nationals in 2021
-- and you could be one of them! All competitions and practices are happening
on Zoom this year, so we'll still have a full season despite the pandemic
restrictions.
Our first information session is tomorrow (Monday) at 12 PM
noon and we hope you'll consider attending! You can learn more about the team
and the tryout process, and you'll have a chance to ask any questions you have.
Here's our info session schedule with Zoom links:
Monday, August 31, 12:00 PM (noon): https://umaryland.zoom.us/j/91956567222
Wednesday, September 2, 12:00 PM (noon): https://umaryland.zoom.us/j/95712826679
Wednesday, September 9, 7:00 PM: https://umaryland.zoom.us/j/97194451059
Monday, September 14, 12:00 PM (noon): https://umaryland.zoom.us/j/97852533069
If you want more information about tryouts or if you know
you're interested and want to start preparing, go to UMBCMockTrial.com/Tryouts
to download the tryout packet and sign up for a tryout slot. If you have any
questions, email us at UMBCMockTrial@UMBC.edu or send us a message on Facebook,
Twitter or Instagram (all @ UMBCMockTrial) and we'll be happy to answer
them!
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