Blackboard Security Issue

We received the following email from Chris Mueller.

I wanted to let everyone know that after several complaints from students of not being able to login to Blackboard, we discovered that if you type in ‘UIS Blackboard’ into Google search, you get taken to a site that looks just like the UIS Blackboard login page but the address is wrong. 

Here is the link Google takes you too: http://www.bubz2020.appspot.com/bb.uis.edu  

Sending out an e-mail of some kind might be necessary. I’ve told the student workers here tonight that if they receive any more phone calls, to have the student reset their password.

I have checked the link and it looks exactly like our blackboard site. I am sure they are probably logging passwords when someone logs in. This is a severe security risk. Someone should probably send out a message to the campus warning them of the situation.

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