IMPORTANT
Over the last week UMBC has experienced a large increase in the use of DocuSign as we gear up for the Fall semester. The DocuSign service had issues with this volume and many of you got the...
August 17, 2020
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11:48 AM
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Includes recording clips, best practices & other resources
Over the summer, DoIT’s instructional technology team delivered four cohorts of PIVOT+ training to 275 UMBC faculty. Leveraging peer mentors and daily webinars focused on effective pedagogy for...
August 14, 2020
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7:46 AM
August 15: unavailable for 3 hours
Downtime On Saturday, August 15, Panopto will be making a number of updates to their Cloud infrastructure to improve performance and scalability. These updates will require up to 3 hours of...
August 13, 2020
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6:34 PM
Yet Another Job Scam, (Pretending To Be From Corestaff)
Below is another example of a phishing email campaign in which the malicious actor is claiming to be from Corestaff Services. The email below is the initial message sent out to victims to try and...
August 13, 2020
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5:06 PM
A Persistent Scam
DoIT has been notified of a phishing scam where the malicious actor was trying to impersonate a UMBC staffer. Below is an example of the email with the name, the email address of the sender, and...
August 13, 2020
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4:44 PM
Fake Small Business Administration (SBA) Loan Offer
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced a new phishing email campaign spoofing the Small Business Administration (SBA). This email has the subject “SBA Application –...
August 13, 2020
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11:47 AM
Make sure you're tech "self-sufficient" to learn online
The start of semester is always busy, but especially during a global pandemic. We got through Spring 20, but since every student will likely have at least one online or hybrid Fall 20 course, the...
August 12, 2020
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9:05 PM
IMPORTANT
Please be aware that the DocuSign system use had exceeded our vendor enforced limit of a 1,000 transactions per hour. It stopped creating envelope transactions for approximately 10 minutes from...
August 12, 2020
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12:15 PM
The Scam That Keeps On Taking
Similar to other work from home phishing attempts targeting the UMBC community, this one follows the pattern. A malicious actor who claims to be from a company, in this case Cisco, offers the...
August 11, 2020
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10:27 PM
A Data Breach Report
In March 2020, Chatbook, a photo print service, suffered a data breach. Approximately 15 million user records were put up for sale on a dark web marketplace. This information includes email...
August 11, 2020
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10:21 PM