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Sept 2012 Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, September 11th, 2012.

PRINT, WDS and WINTERM will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, September 12th, 2012, at 3:00 am.



WINTERM will be unavailable, to update all software, till 10:00am September 12th, 2012.

Resolved as of 2012-09-17 10:02:00

Emergency maintenance (2 of 2) for EECS-Secure wireless from 6-8am, Tuesday Sept 11th, 2012

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We will be performing emergency maintenance for EECS-Secure wireless from 6-8am, Tuesday Sept 11th, 2012. During this window you may experience a brief interruption of service. We are changing the subnet for EECS-Secure during this time. If you lose service you can restart your networking to release and renew your DHCP lease to obtain an IP address on the new subnet. Alternately, you can use the EECS, EECS-Open, or AirBears SSIDs which will NOT be affected by the outage during this period tonight.

This is emergency maintenance window 2 of 2.
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Emergency maintenance (1 of 2) for EECS-Open wireless from 8-9pm tonight, Monday Sept 10th, 2012

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We will be performing emergency maintenance for EECS-Open wireless from 8-9pm tonight, Monday Sept 10th, 2012. During this window you may experience a brief interruption of service. We are changing the subnet for EECS-Open during this time. If you lose service you can restart your networking to release and renew your DHCP lease to obtain an IP address on the new subnet. Alternately, you can use the EECS, EECS-Secure, or AirBears SSIDs which will NOT be affected by the outage during this period tonight.

This is emergency maintenance window 1 of 2.
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Is Java in your web browser exploitable?

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Is Java in your web browser exploitable?

Vulnerabilities in the Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
are being exploited just by viewing malicious web pages.

Oracle strongly recommends that the Java updates released
on Thursday August 30, 2012 be applied.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2012-4681-1835715.html

CERT recommends updating Java and considering other workarounds
including disabling the Java plug-in in your web browser.

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/636312

A web page powered by Rapid7 will check to see if
your web browser has a Java plug-in enabled and whether
the version of Java is exploitable –
http://www.isjavaexploitable.com/

http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp

can be used to detect the version of java installed.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/

is a Java SE downloads page.

Please direct any questions or comments to the
IRIS help desk (help@eecs, 395 Cory M-F 9:30am-5pm, 642-7777).