Archive for November, 2013

As described on their website, Adobe was recently the victim of an attack from which over 153 million accounts, passwords and password hints were exposed. IS&T’s Information Security team has analyzed the information that was made public and found that over 9000 of the Adobe accounts belong to users who signed up with a Boston…

IS&T teams have identified the cause of the problem and are addressing remaining issues on a case by case basis.
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As recently announced by President Brown, faculty and staff will be receiving messages from Peter Fiedler, Vice President for Administrative Services and chair of the Employee Giving/United Way campaign. We want to assure you that these messages are legitimate and you can trust the provided link, which will point you to the campaign through unitedwayconnect.org….

IS&T teams have resolved the incident by moving service to another server, restarting the affected server, and moving service back.
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Boston University will never contact you to ask for your password. If you ever see a request for your password, even if the message looks like it came from a BU source or other organization you trust, just delete the email message; it is not legitimate…

See below for security related patches released Between 11/01/13 and 11/31/13 Please note: Not all of these patches will be applicable to every machine, but all are included for informational purposes. Apple Apple 2013-11-05 iTunes 11.1.3 for Mac (Update) (See Notes) Apple iTunes 11.1.3 for Windows (Update) (All Languages) (See Notes) Microsoft Update for Windows…

On Base is currently unavailable to clients. Clients can open OnBase but can not access any documents….