COEHD, UTS is blocking several applications begin today at 7pm as per the Texas Senate Bill 1893. Please see details below. BLOCKING PROHIBITED APPLICATIONS – CHG0042873: Blocking of prohibited applications as directed by the office of the Texas government. Change by Cyber Operations (CO) – Samuel Barrera. * This change is scheduled for Wednesday, July 2nd, starting at 7:00 PM lasting Saturday, July 5th, until 2:00 AM, and its scope is the blocking of prohibited applications as directed by Texas Senate Bill 1893 and Governor Greg Abbott’s executive directives. * To comply with Texas Senate Bill 1893 and Governor Greg Abbott's executive directives, this change request implements technical controls to block the use of prohibited applications on UTSA devices and networks. * During this maintenance work, user access to the following application services on UTSA networks and on UTSA computing assets will be prohibited and blocked: * Alipay * ByteDance Ltd. * CamScanner * DeepSeek * Kaspersky * Lemon8 * Moomoo * QQ Wallet * RedNote * SHAREit * Tencent Holdings Ltd. * Tiger Brokers * TikTok * VMate * WeBull * WeChat * WeChat Pay * WPS Office * Reference: https://dir.texas.gov/information-security/covered-applications-and-prohi... If you have any questions, please email TechCafe@utsa.edu<mailto:TechCafe@utsa.edu> or COEHDIT@utsa.edu<mailto:COEHDIT@utsa.edu> Thank you, Contact University Technology Solutions (UTS) by email, TechCafe@utsa.edu<mailto:TechCafe@utsa.edu> or by phone (210)458-5555. Need to schedule an appointment with the COEHD IT Team, email COEHDIT@utsa.edu<mailto:COEHDIT@utsa.edu> or BOOK your next technical appointment with COEHDIT<https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/COEHDIT1@utsacloud.... -COEHD IT Associates: Lisa Romo | Esther Martinez, MSIT -COEHD IT Operations Manager: Marisol Johnson, MSIT