Please see the note below regarding a Flash Player update to address a vulnerability that is currently being exploited. For administrative users whose systems are managed by us, we’ll get you up to date. This notice is for all those who manage their own machines. Thanks! Adobe has released an Emergency Patch for Flash on …

Notifications are now enabled to all recipients and senders of blocked attachments. This is rudimentary and will be fine-tuned tomorrow. More details as I get them…

This is a followup to the announcement this weekend, also available here: http://mcssys.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/sending-and-receiving-attachments-may-not-work/ A quick update on how things are progressing with the problem of e-mail attachments being silently dropped. The Cyber and email teams in CIS met today to go over the problem. I just got off the phone with them and we discussed …

It seems that the Exchange server almost all of us are using is blocking attachments that have executable files. What this means is that if you receive a file (including a ZIP file) that contains a windows executable, or even an executable shell script, it’ll get blocked. It’s supposed to notify you of this, but …

Please see the following announcement from CIS. The only thing that seems to affect CELS is the telephone system work and some Argonne web applications being patched. Argonne Business Systems will be inaccessible on that Saturday. IT Maintenance Weekend Coming January 17-19 Major maintenance activities are planned for the weekend of January 17-19. Work will …

Due to the treacherous conditions, a number of the Systems team are working remotely today. We’re online and accessible, but any activities requiring in-person actions might be delayed. As always, report any issues to [email protected]. Thanks, and stay safe (and warm)! — Craig

At 5:00pm today there will be a brief outage of all the WordPress sites on press3.mcs.anl.gov including those below. This is so applied security updates can take effect. The outage is expected to only last a few minutes and an all clear will be sent when the server and sites are back. If this outage …

The next CIS maintenance weekend will be Friday January 17 through Sunday January 19, 2014. The scope of the work to be done on this weekend is still being determined. Please let us know if there are particular concerns you have with this window. Thanks! — Craig

Hey, gang! At my request, CIS took a break from the migrations while I was away on vacation over Thanksgiving. Now that I’m back, we’re going to continue them up until the break, then pick up again in the new year. The plan remains as it was — you’ll get a notification a couple of …

Salutations, In coordination with the Cyber security office, our wordpress infrastructure is back online as of 14:40 this afternoon and we have restored all the wordpress sites listed in the initial message. Very fortunately we were able to restore them to a known clean state from backups that were made at 01:00:00 11/21/20213 (one AM …