Instructional & Research Information Systems
by IRIS Staff
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, January 10, 2006. HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching the following Wednesday, January 11, 2006, from 3:00 – 5:00pm.
macserver.eecs.berkeley.edu, which hosts the Mac software warehouse, will be down for maintenance at this time as well.
by IRIS Staff
As of Monday, Jan. 2, 9:20am, gateway.EECS is having problem with authentication, thus preventing users from sending email. Staff are working on this, and will restore service as soon as they can.
[Read more…] about Gateway.EECS auth problem
The unix/linux Software Warehouse fileserver sww.eecs suffered a power supply failure shortly after midnight last night, making /usr/sww unavailable for all clients which mount it.
As of about 12:45pm, all sww.eecs services have been restored, and clients which mount /usr/sww should be working as normal.
Due to the Winter Holidays, Energy Curtailment, and New Year’s Holidays, the Berkeley campus is officially closed for the period Monday 12/24/2005 to Monday 01/02/2006.
All departmental computing servers will remain on and should be available during the break, but there will be no staff on site to provide any computing support or handle any requests. Automatic monitoring systems will alert staff to critical infrastructure problems, and any such problems will be dealt with on a best-effort basis. We expect full service to resume on January 2nd.
The EECS Department’s Computer Helpdesk will be closed during this time. Problem reports can be left on the Helpdesk voice mail (2-7777) or emailed to help@eecs, but staff may not receive or reply to these messages until January 2nd.
During the break, Instructional labs will be locked, but the main servers should remain online (imail.eecs, inst.eecs, cory.eecs, mamba.eecs and fileservice.eecs). Instructional support staff will occasionally monitor inst@eecs over the break. If you are unable to contact inst@eecs, you can leave a message at 2-9543. Please be aware, though, that staff may not be able to respond or reply to messages until January 2nd.
We recommend that all desktop computers be shutdown during the Energy Curtailment Period. If your Windows computer needs to stay on during the break, we recommend that you check with your system administrator to ensure that Automatic Updates are enabled with the option ‘Automatically download the updates and install them on the schedule that I specify’, with a daily update schedule. For all windows systems, especially mobile laptops, we also suggest that you consider installing personal firewalls.
Computing support staff will be monitoring their email when possible, so please use standard email addresses to report any urgent problems. As a reminder:
Enjoy your holiday break!
by IRIS Staff
The BID center router will be down for repairs on Friday Dec. 23 from 8:00 AM until 8:30 AM.
by IRIS Staff
The server is back up as of 9:10am. Thanks for your patience.
by IRIS Staff
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Title: Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2005
Issued: December 13, 2005
Version Number: 1.0
Bulletin: http://socrates.berkeley.edu:2002/MinStds/
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Security patches defined by Microsoft as “critical” or “important”
MUST be applied within 10 business days of notification. Should there
be active exploits, the time will be adjusted and users will be
informed appropriately. Hosts unpatched after the defined time are
subject to scanning and removal from the EECS network as per campus
IT security policies http://socrates.berkeley.edu:2002/MinStds/
Patching is sometimes dependent on the service pack level of the
Microsoft OS, and installed applications, please read requirements
carefully.
Critical Security Bulletins
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MS05-054 – Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (905915)
Impact: Remote Code Execution
Affected Software:
Review the FAQ section of bulletin MS05-054 for information about these operating systems:
Version Number: 1.0
Important Security Bulletins MS05-055 – Vulnerability in Windows Kernel Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (908523) Impact: Elevation of Privilege Affected Software:
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Version Number: 1.0
by IRIS Staff
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, December
13, 2005. HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching the
following Wednesday, December 14, 2005, from 3:00 – 5:00pm.
macserver.eecs.berkeley.edu, which hosts the Mac software warehouse, will
be down for maintenance at this time as well.
by IRIS Staff
As part of the effort to continue to strengthen our IT security, and to comply with the campus requirement, our exemption from the campus Windows RPC services blocking will cease after Dec. 21, 2005.
This will impact remote authentication to our Windows Active Directory (ie. the “EECS” domain) from offsite. It will also prevent ALL remote mounting of coeus, project, or WinSWW from any Windows system. Some examples are listed here:
This block was put in place by campus SNS group at UCB border approximately two years ago. EECS has an exemption, but the exemption is expiring.
There are two ways to alleviate this impact:
If you have any questions, please contact help@eecs.
by IRIS Staff
As previously announced on the Oct. 11 Town Hall meeting, EECS will be making some changes to its wireless service offerings:
1. Effective Nov. 1, 2005, campus Airbears service is now available throughout the entire EECS, including all floors of Soda and Cory Halls, BWRC, and HMMB (CITRIS and BID centers).
2. After Dec. 20th, 2005, the existing EECS guest wireless service will cease to function. EECS users with valid Calnet IDs can obtain Airbears guest wireless service for their guests, for up to one week.
3. Effective Jan. 2006, EECS will be offering an extended guest wireless service, with a nominal charge, for our guests that need wireless internet access for more than the 7 days offered thru Airbears. The registration process is done thru
https://guest.eecs.berkeley.edu. A valid COA will be required. Guest wireless service can be provided on a monthly basis.
For details, please direct your inquiries to help@eecs.