Main Notices News Archive
Computer Security Advisory for All University Faculty & Staff E-mail Recipients Starting last Friday (5/13/2017) computer security researchers and news media began sharing information about a new computer security attack called ‘WannaCry’. This attack is another variation of malicious software referred to as ‘ransomware’. When a computer becomes infected with ransomware, this malicious code attempts
On January 15th, 2017, MU Information Technology will be eliminating the self-service feature for creating/managing group aliases and vanity email addresses. These features, (group aliases and vanity addresses) are being migrated to our Exchange Server environment. Existing group aliases are being converted to Exchange distribution groups and will continue to function. Beginning on 1/15/17,
Over the holiday break the IT Infrastructure Communications Team began upgrading the Wireless LAN Controllers and the radius authentication servers. Those upgrades were completed early this morning. Due to the nature of our authentication protocols you will now have to “accept” a new security certificate to connect to the WiFi network. During this upgrade the
The Marshall University campus Symantec Endpoint Protection Management (SEPM) Servers and Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) client install packages have been upgraded to version 12.1.7061.6600 (Windows/Mac/Linux). This Symantec provided update addresses Symantec Security Advisory SYM16-015 (client decomposer engine). This update provided client OS support for Mac OS 10.12 (Sierra). SEP client patches are being distributed via
Our Skype for Business phone/UM environment has been performing in an optimal state until approximately 3am 8/16/2016 when all of the servers in the Skype for Business environment rebooted unexpectedly. This incident inadvertently caused many Polycom phones to be in a disabled state that required a physical reboot in order to correct. In addition it has
The Marshall University campus Symantec Endpoint Protection Management (SEPM) Servers and Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) client install packages have been upgraded to version 12.1.7004.6500 (Windows/Linux) and 12.1.6867.6400 (MacOS). This Symantec provided update addresses Symantec Security Advisory SYM16-010 (client decomposer engine) and SYM16-011 (multiple SEPM security issues). This update addresses several ‘high severity’ issues in both
Symantec has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. Exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to take control of an affected system and cause a denial-of-service condition. Users and administrators are encouraged to review Symantec Security Advisories SYM16-010(link is external) and SYM16-011(link is external) and apply the necessary updates.
MU Information Security Elevated Risk Advisory Apple QuickTime for Windows Apple has announced that it is ending support for their QuickTime 7 for Windows product. QuickTime for Windows was commonly installed on Microsoft Windows PC’s in the form of a web browser plug-in and stand-alone player to support web-based media; it was also included as
MU Information Security Elevated Risk Advisory… Don’t get LOCKED out of your computer by RansomWare! Ransomware is a type of malicious software that infects computer systems, restricting users’ access to the those systems. According to a recent security bulletin released by the US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) “Ransomware is often spread through phishing emails
We are currently experiencing intermittent issues with our VPN service. The infrastructure group is currently working with our vendor on a permanent fix for the software “bug”. We have a work around available if the service is in an unusable state. Root Cause: Currently unavailable at this time.