News

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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...

Posted: October 5, 2021, 6:52 PM

Expiring eduroam Network Certificate

eduroam certificate to be updated Wednesday night

On Wednesday October 6th the certificate for the eduroam wireless network will be updated. DoIT recommends that you forget and rejoin eduroam using the instructions below before the certificate...

Posted: October 5, 2021, 5:59 AM

Phishing Alert: "Received AWB Documents via WeTransfer"

A "File Transfer" Phishing Campaign

The Division of Information Technology( DOIT) recently received reports of a ‘file transfer’ phishing campaign. Below is an example of this phishing email. We removed the To field for privacy...

Posted: September 28, 2021, 7:19 PM

Taki Downtime on October 5, 2021 - 5pm to 9pm

To all taki users, On Tuesday October 5, 2021 the taki cluster environment will be down and inaccessible from 5pm - 9pm EDT.  Once our work is done on Tuesday, we will make another...

Posted: September 28, 2021, 6:37 PM

taki Back Online After Unscheduled Downtime

To all taki users, At 12:30PM portions of the taki cluster environment became unavailable. The management system attempted to correct the issue by selectively killing administrative...

Posted: September 28, 2021, 3:15 PM

New Features for VoiceThread Assignments

Updates to Due Dates, Creating Assignments, and Commenting

There are some new features in VoiceThread Assignments!  New features were added to VoiceThread Assignments at the end of September and we would like to share them with faculty. These features...

Posted: September 28, 2021, 12:36 PM

Account data breach: Ajarn

Why You Should Not Use Your UMBC Password At Any Other Site

In September 2021, Thai-based English language teaching website, Ajarn, learnt that they suffered a data breach back in September 2018. This breach contained data for approximately 266 thousand...

Posted: September 27, 2021, 5:34 PM

Notice of a LEGITIMATE E-mail Survey!

"Your UMBC Feedback is Requested" Is A VALID Survey Request

Normally, these posts warn of various types of fraud and misdirection that try to mislead victims into giving up personal information and/or money.  The Division of Information Technology (DoIT)...

Posted: September 27, 2021, 4:50 PM

Job Phishing Alert: Department of Psychology

Another Day, Another Job Scam.

Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DOIT) received multiple reports of a job phishing email. The scammers sending these emails are impersonating Professor Cheah of the Department of...

Posted: September 26, 2021, 9:25 PM