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As we prepare for the winter break, we commonly see a surge in malicious activity toward user accounts. Users receive emails warning about unpaid invoices, expired passwords, or full inboxes....
Smartphone Insight has published a handy guide with step-by-step instructions to protect your IoS or Android phone data. With these 17 tips, your device will continuously be up to date. In...
A Recent Report On Phishing Attacks (And How To Avoid Them)
However you get your news, by now you have seen the term 'phishing' used to describe ways to exploit people on the Internet. You or someone you know may have been the target of a phishing...
Vendor Breaches and Account Compromises Internet vendors will, at times, suffer data breaches. Sometimes the service will attempt to contact it’s account holders and other times it won’t. ...
Helping Secure Your Communications When Off-Campus
If I am a student, can I log in from my country of travel? Yes, as long as you have a valid UMBC account and the country in question allows internet traffic to and from the United States Can I...
The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has received several reports of insurance scams via telephone and email. To help protect the UMBC community from identity theft, DoIT is sharing some...
The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has seen many different reports of Phishing and job scam emails sent to UMBC accounts. This article will list some helpful tips to spot phishing...
UMBC’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT) asks that all students set-up a password reset email address for their accounts. This email address ensures that your profile is secure, and it...
Phishing emails, spoofing and forgery schemes have found a hunting ground for cyber attacks within institutes of higher education just like UMBC. Below are some reasons why universities are...
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...
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