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Another Breach Of An Online Service

In 2020, the 3D model sharing service Thingiverse suffered a data breach. On October 13, 2021, the data compromised in the breach was posted in various hacker forums. This breach contained data...

October 18, 2021 · 4:53 PM

Matlab 2021b Available

Latest version of Matlab install on Taki

We have installed Matlab 2021b on Taki, it is now the default Matlab. You can access Matlab by loading the module with the following command: module load MATLAB The older versions of...

October 15, 2021 · 1:01 PM

Technical Briefing by NVIDIA

NVIDIA staff will share plans for future product releases

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, Technical staff from NVIDIA will give us a 30 minute intro call to go over their new product releases and see how NVIDIA might be able to help us...

October 12, 2021 · 9:32 AM

Commemorative Coin Spam

Spam Claiming Celebrity Endorsement For Trump Coin

The UMBC Department of Information Technology (DoIT) received a report of spam invoking former President Trump, collectible coins, and the security-focused Telegram messaging system. See the...

October 11, 2021 · 12:17 PM

Account data breach: LinkedIn

Time To Change Your LinkedIn Password

Account data breach: LinkedIn In April 2021, an employment-oriented online service, LinkedIn, was targeted by attackers who scraped data from hundreds of millions of public profiles and later...

October 11, 2021 · 10:29 AM

Phishing Alert: I need your quick response

Tip: This Isn't Dr. Hrabowski

The Division of Information Technology( DoIT) recently received reports about a phishing email impersonating Dr. Hrabowski. Below is an example of such an email. We removed the recipient’s...

October 11, 2021 · 10:26 AM

Phishing Alert: You have (#) new pending incoming emails

A New Twist On Phishing

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) recently received reports of a new form of phishing campaign. This campaign informs recipients that they have “# new pending incoming emails” where #...

October 11, 2021 · 10:21 AM

IMPORTANT

Campus Wide Network and Service Outage Earlier this Morning

From approximately 9:40 to 10:40 the campus experienced a widespread service outage that affected most campus systems including login to myUMBC, blackboard, and the campus websites among others....

October 8, 2021 · 11:09 AM

October brings student receipts & bigger rubrics for Ultra

Tables also available in the Ultra content editor

Rubrics are grading tools that help instructors to assess student performance and give feedback in detail. Prior to the October update, rubrics were limited to 10 rows and 10 columns. Now faculty...

October 8, 2021 · 9:15 AM

taki downtime completed

To all taki users, Our work bringing the taki cluster environment up-to-date has concluded. Please begin normal use of the cluster environment. Please let us know if you have any questions...

October 5, 2021 · 6:52 PM

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