Recent UMD Cybersecurity Attacks
Over the past week, UMD has seen a rapid increase in the number of spear phishing attacks directed at UMD employees. In a spear phishing attack, a forged email is commonly sent to members of the UMD community, and the goal is to get people to click on an email attachment. The forged email shows the name of a trusted member of the UMD community such as your department chair or business officer.
DIT at Maryland Day
Join the Division of IT and our vendor sponsors at Maryland Day 2022 Saturday, April 30!
Webex Video Conferencing Service to End in June 2022
UMD's centrally provided Webex Web Conferencing service will be discontinued June 15, 2022.
Terrapin Tech and IT Service Desk Closed April 17
Terrapin Tech and the IT Service Desk will be closed Sunday, April 17.
Changes to UMD Password Policies
Beginning on April 11, 2022, the University of Maryland’s Directory password requirements will change.
Scheduled Outage of IT Services April 3
On Sunday, April 3, 2022 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., DIT will be performing an upgrade to the core database servers causing many services to be unavailable.
Scheduled Network Outages for UMD Buildings Spring 2022
Through the Spring 2022 semester, there will be a scheduled outage for each campus building when it will lose network connectivity for 15-20 minutes while building network connections are upgraded.
Spring Break 2022 Service Modifications
DIT offices will be closed March 21-22 for Spring Break. There will also be additional planned outages March 20-25.
Scheduled Outage of IT Services March 20, 2022
On March 20 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., several IT systems will be unavailable while DIT conducts a set of disaster recovery and service resiliency tests.