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HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW downtime

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, June 12th.

HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching Wednesday,
June 13th, from 3:00p¿5:00p.

macserver.eecs.berkeley.edu, which hosts the Mac software warehouse,
will be down for maintenance at this time as well.

Possible Security Breach

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The UC Berkeley campus received an FBI report with evidence that
multiple computer accounts and systems was compromised in the time
frame of 2003-2005. The campus SNS (System and Network Security)
group believes that all evidence from the FBI report is consistent
with this being the UC Berkeley portion of the legacy of the
world-wide cyber attack by the infamous “Stakkato” alias. For more
information about Stakkato:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakkato
http://www.nsc.liu.se/~nixon/stakkato.pdf

SNS forwarded information to EECS from the FBI report with what we
have identified as a copy of the department NIS domain
passwd file from November 18, 2004. This date appears to
correlate with activity via a compromised non-privileged user
computer account in EECS (this unauthorized activity was
presumably by Stakkato). Since Stakkato had access to very
powerful computing, Stakkato could have used “brute force” to guess
UNIX passwords.

Today’s Network Outage

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We had a brief network outage this afternoon, from about 12:05-1:15 pm. A clerical error occurred in preparation for switching to the new network core hardware. This caused a VLAN to appear in the network core where it should not have been. This was the cause of the outage. My apologies.

IMAP Server Reboot

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The IMAP server will be rebooted at 2PM today, 3 May 2007.

IDSG is sorry for the short notice, this reboot is to address the slow IMAP performance.

Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, May 8th.

HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching on Wednesday,
May 9th, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm.

macserver.eecs.berkeley.edu, which hosts the Mac software warehouse,
will be down for maintenance at this time as well.

Potential Wireless Downtime in Soda Hall

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We will be doing battery maintenance for the Network Com Center in Soda Hall
tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11:00 AM. This should not cause any network
interruptions. This is just a precautionary message.

Morning Wireless Network Downtime

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Between 6:00 AM and 8:00 AM on Wednesday the 25th, we will be upgrading the EECS wireless network code on Wednesday with a more recent version of code with one important security patch. This will affect all EECS WLANs (including EECS AirBears). It will NOT affect the outdoor mesh wireless network. We have tested this code for some time so I don’t anticipate any problems.