Please see the below announcement from ANL Cybersecurity. As noted, it’s recommended you disable automatic MMS retrieval on your device if you use Android. Depending on your MMS application, the instructions for doing this may vary. I’ve included instructions for two Google messaging apps. Check the settings in your SMS/MMS app if it’s not one …

The previously announced networking issue has been resolved for the time being, however, we do not yet have a root cause. We don’t expect another outage at the moment, but we’re keeping an eye on things in case they go down again.

As part of us trying to make our hostnames make a little more sense, we’ve moved Jira from xjira.mcs.anl.gov to jira.cels.anl.gov (this aligns with the collab.cels.anl.gov). The old URL should redirect seamlessly. If you notice any issues, please report them to [email protected]. Thanks!

CIS is proposing the following dates for maintenance weekends. These weekends can typically involve some amount of unavailability for lab systems, including e-mail, networking, etc. They do not typically affect MCS/CELS systems, but they can if the outage is related to networking. At the moment, the following weekends are proposed. If you know of some …

We’ve been getting multiple reports of a phishing mail that came in last night with a subject of "Suspension Alert!". It’s obviously bogus, but best to just let everyone know not to click the "CLICK HERE" link. Your account isn’t going to be suspended. 🙂 Thanks to all who reported it.

Consider this a "mostly all clear" message. The work was completed, and we’ve got most systems up and running. There are a handful of systems giving us trouble at the moment (including some that didn’t go down during the outage, but started acting up when things came back), and we’re working on them. Those of …

I will send an all-clear when things are back to normal. Updates will be posted to our blog (http://mcssys.wordpress.com) and twitter (@mcssys). Thanks!