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USM OnTrack: Support Available for High Enrollment Courses!

Partner with Lumen Learning for adaptive courseware adoption

There is still time to consider an adaptive courseware adoption for the fall semester!  USM OnTrack  has partnered with Lumen Learning to provide free professional development and support services...

Posted: August 10, 2020, 6:11 PM

Free 3-day Conference on Labs for Online STEM Announced

Attend Innovating STEM Education 2020 online August 19-21

OLC Ideate Labs for Online STEM: Innovating STEM Education 2020   With COVID pandemic, virtual labs are now a requirement rather than a "nice to have".  There are many technologies and...

Posted: August 10, 2020, 5:49 PM

USM OnTrack: New Online Teaching Resources Page Announced

Check out this updated content on the OnTrack website!

The USM OnTrack website has been updated to include new Online Teaching Resources. USM has revamped the emergency remote teaching web resources shared last spring to focus on the pivot to...

Posted: August 10, 2020, 5:43 PM

Be Wary Of These Covid-19 Scams

Some Of The Scams Coming Over Email, Phone, and Text

In the article linked below, BBC News warns of different Covid-19 themed frauds and scams. Many malicious actors follow the headlines just like the rest of us, and when they see a crisis like...

Posted: August 5, 2020, 6:12 PM

Gift Cards Phishing Scams

Another Variant Of A Common Scam

Recently DoIT has been notified of a phishing email scam where the malicious actor is impersonating a UMBC staff member. The name has been removed from the From for privacy reasons, but an example...

Posted: August 5, 2020, 5:59 PM

Webex Dial-in Service Restored

The dial in feature in Webex Meeting is now working agin

After working with Cisco's engineering team we have restored the dial in feature in Webex Meetings. This was restored around 10am this morning and all our testing appears positive. If you...

Posted: August 5, 2020, 4:06 PM

Webex Dial-in Feature Outage

DoIT is working with Cisco on the call-in function outage

DoIT has been made aware of a problem with the dial-in feature in Webex Meetings. The symptom is that when joining a meeting through the phone that users will receive an error of “You have dialed...

Posted: August 4, 2020, 12:44 PM

Account Data Breach: Dave

Data Breach On Digital Banking App

In June 2020,  Dave, a digital banking app, suffered a data breach. 7.5 million rows of data were leaked to the public on a hacking forum. The breach exposed individuals’ Personal Identifiable...

Posted: August 4, 2020, 10:34 AM

Mothur is now Installed on Taki

New Bioinformatics Software is available

We have installed the Mothur software on the Taki cluster. Documentation on the software is available here. This is available as a module on Taki.

Posted: August 3, 2020, 5:13 PM

Phishing Emails from SurveyMonkey

The Survey Site Is Legitimate. The Survey Is Not.

According to an article at https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com,  Abnormal Security recently discovered a new phishing campaign using malicious emails from a legitimate SurveyMonkey domain. A...

Posted: July 30, 2020, 4:37 PM