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Gift Card Scams Are Targeting UMBC Staff
If it seems weird, it is. Don't do it.
For several years, UMBC's Division of Information Technology has received reports of gift card scams. Recently, some of these scams have been sent as text messages to personal phones, falsely...
Posted: July 31, 2024, 9:02 PM
Two Unusual Phishing Campaigns
Scammers get creative
Recently the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) received notification of two phishing campaigns at other universities. While neither of these has been reported at UMBC, we are posting this...
Posted: January 6, 2023, 4:44 PM
Protecting your online account over Winter Break
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....
Posted: December 22, 2022, 1:44 PM
Account Data Breach: Twitter
Hackers list database of 5.4 million records for sale
In January 2022, a vulnerability in Twitter's platform allowed an attacker to build a database of email addresses and phone numbers of millions of users of the social platform. In a disclosure...
Posted: October 19, 2022, 3:23 PM
Account Data Breach: SitePoint
Shared data has already been used in attacks
In June 2020, the web development site SitePoint suffered a data breach that exposed over one million customer records. Impacted data included email and IP addresses, names, usernames, bios and...
Posted: October 18, 2022, 4:05 PM
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