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:...
April 21, 2020
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10:13 AM
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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...
April 20, 2020
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12:16 PM
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...
April 20, 2020
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12:06 PM
Hackers Offering Jobs at Cisco Systems
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...
April 20, 2020
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12:01 PM
The deadline for requesting software to be included in our physical labs, virtual labs, and classrooms is approaching. Software requests for Summer and Fall 2019 are due by May 1 (Summer deadline...
April 8, 2020
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3:01 PM
Add media-rich, asynchronous engagement in your courses
VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in several ways – text, voice, audio file, or...
April 8, 2020
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2:14 PM
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...
April 7, 2020
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5:05 PM
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...
April 7, 2020
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2:36 PM
Several High Profile Administrators Impersonated
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: <...
April 6, 2020
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11:13 AM
DoIT's "bird's-eye view" of our now virtual campus
We in DoIT know that numbers alone can’t capture the time and effort UMBC students, faculty and staff have put into coping with the disruption caused by the Coronavirus global pandemic. However,...
April 2, 2020
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5:29 PM