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Reminder: Zimbra outage tomorrow, 1/19, from 8AM to 8PM.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The Zimbra 6 to 7 upgrade window is going to be 8am to 8pm (12 hours) on Saturday, January 19. During this window, Zimbra will be unreachable and will not be processing any email. Inbound mail will be queued at our mail gateway, so no mail will be…

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Java exploits

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

This is a note for those who manage their own machines. We’re taking care of this for machines that we manage. If you’re running Java, please make sure you’re at the absolute latest version of either 1.6 or 1.7. Anything earlier is vulnerable. The…

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Very targeted Phishing attempt for MCS.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

These were probably caught by the filter, and if they *did* get through they’re so laughably bad that I can’t imagine anyone would fall for it, but I figure we’ll warn you about this phishing attempt all the same. If you actually got this and fell…

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Zimbra Upgrade/Outage, January 19, 8AM to 8PM

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Greetings, folks. The Argonne Zimbra service is scheduled to be upgraded a week from tomorrow. The outage is expected to last the whole day. Here’s the summary from the lead admin on the project: > The Zimbra 6 to 7 upgrade window is going to be 8…

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Phishing attack mail

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

There’s a phishing mail many received here (enclosed below) that claims we need you to send your username and password. While it’s clever enough to mention our Zimbra server and get our anl.gov domain right, you all are smart enough to know we wil…

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Mailing list problems resolved

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The slowness on he mailman server was traced to some malformed messages causing memory issues earlier his afternoon. We expect all mailing list mail to work normally.

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Issues with mailing lists

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We’re currently debugging a problem with our Mailman server. Mail to mailing lists hosted on that server is delayed right now. We hope it should be back soon, will send an announcement when it’s fixed.

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docs.google.com temporarily blocked from ANL

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Just a heads up that docs.google.com is temporarily being blocked by the ANL firewalls to prevent password exposure from an email phishing attack today. If you can’t reach google docs, that’s why. Not sure how long the block will last at this poin…

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Network upgrade this weekend

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

CIS is performing network upgrades on the border router this weekend. This is similar to the work that was performed in July, however this time they have learned from the problems during that upgrade and do not expect any outage to be longer than …

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Change in account sponsorship rules and termination of accounts.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

With our new account management system and improvements in how it interfaces with ANL’s HR system, we have made some changes in how account sponsorships are handled. Previously, we required anyone who was not a regular employee in MCS to have an a…

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