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Temporary myUMBC Outage

Friday, April 11 from 6:30 to 7:00 am

On Friday, April 11th at 6:30 am, UMBC DoIT will be performing maintenance on the myUMBC network.  This maintenance should take no longer than 30 minutes, but during this time myUMBC will be...

Posted: April 10, 2014, 3:21 PM

Warning: Email Phishing Attacks Targeting Faculty & Staff

Never give out your username or password

DoIT continues to receive reports of faculty and staff receiving that is part of a targeted "phishing" attack to steal your username and password information or infect your computer.  One...

Posted: April 10, 2014, 12:48 AM

UMBC Response to Heartbleed Security Incident

Issue potentially affects "https" web sites using Open SSL

A major security vulnerability named Heartbleed was disclosed Monday night.  The vulnerability affects a large portion of websites on the Internet, and here at UMBC, that use the "https:" protocol...

Posted: April 9, 2014, 7:40 PM

Classroom/Event Scheduling Downtime (R25)

Please note that the Classroom and Event scheduling system known as R25 will be down from 4-15-2014 through 4-17-2014. The downtime is needed to complete phase 1 of 2 for migrating the current...

Posted: April 9, 2014, 2:14 PM

Cyrus Mail Outage Tonight at 10pm

At 10pm tonight, Tuesday April 8th, there will be a 45min outage of the Cyrus mail system.  This outage is needed to patch a critical security vulnerability which has just been discovered.  In...

Posted: April 8, 2014, 4:33 PM

Change to Lab Profile

MyDocuments No Longer Available In The Labs

After Thursday, May 22, the My Documents folder on lab computers will be disabled for storing files. Instead, DoIT recommends using Box (box.umbc.edu) for storing all of your files.  Combined with...

Posted: April 4, 2014, 5:27 PM

Everyone Must Reset Password and Create Security Questions

Deadline: May 23, 2014

Update: Given recent IT security threats generally, DoIT has decided to force the password change to May 23, 2014, the day after Undergraduate Commencement. Thank you in advance for your patience...

Posted: April 2, 2014, 10:57 PM

RT Slowness Update

As most of you know RT has been experiencing some performance issues which have been hard to diagnose. DoIT has increased the computing power several times since the upgrade in December for the...

Posted: March 31, 2014, 8:01 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 3/28 to 1 am 3/29

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 3/28 to 1 am Saturday 3/29.  This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to...

Posted: March 27, 2014, 8:03 PM