The DNS name coeus.Berkeley.EDU has been a nickname for our
Network Appliance fileserver coeus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU.

We are going to give up the coeus.Berkeley.EDU DNS nickname so
as to allow the campus Sponsored Projects Office to use it
for a campus-level information system beginning May 23, 2006.

A vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Metafile (WMF) handling was
discovered in December. This vulnerability affects all
versions of Microsoft Windows. Microsoft is working on a patch.

This vulnerability could let an intruder take complete control of
your system, install spyware and attack other systems.
Exploit code has been publicly posted and systems are being
compromised, including as of Monday January 2, 2006 41 systems
on campus of which 2 were in EECS.

Systems are vulnerable to WMF exploits via malicious web pages,
malicious email attachments and malicious attachments in instant messaging.

For more info please see
http://idsg.EECS.Berkeley.EDU/security/wmf.html
[Read more…] about Microsoft Windows Metafile (WMF) Handling Vulnerability Advisory

The IRIS general UNIX login server argus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
is scheduled for routine maintenance on Wednesday, April 20th and will be shutdown and rebooted at 5:00pm.

We expect argus will be off-line for less than 10 minutes.

Please make your plans accordingly.

IRIS’ general UNIX login server argus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU is scheduled for routine maintenance.

argus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will be shutdown and rebooted Wednesday 3/2 at 5pm.

We expect argus will be off-line for less than 10 minutes.

Please make your plans accordingly.