Alerts

Bastion Host accounts expire

Reminder:

NWC Bastion accounts are set to expired at the end of June. They will need to be renewed as of July 1st. Please use the form for renewing your account.

mjl

Satelite data out

The machine that is responsible for creation of the Unidata-Wisconsin
(IDD feedtype UNIWISC (aka MCIDAS)) datastream and for a variety of
toplevel IDD relay functions, unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu has been
experiencing problems with its RAID since yesterday evening.

Even though the problems are being actively worked on, we do not
have an estimate for when the machine will be returned to full
service.

We apologize for the interruption in services...

Cheers,

Unidata User Support
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Unidata User Support                              UCAR Unidata Program
(303)497-8643                                            P.O. Box 3000
support@unidata.ucar.edu                             Boulder, CO 80307
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Unidata Web Support               
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support  
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Phishing Alert

There is a phishing e-mail going around that is trying to gather personal login information. IT DID NOT COME FROM OUIT. You should ignore and delete the message.


This is a copy of the e-mail. AGAIN, DO NOT RESPOND.

mjl

From: Webmail IT Service <</span>info@support.org>
Reply-To: <</span>upgrad_teamservice@live.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 03:40:43 -0500
Subject: Dear Staff/Student

Dear Staff/Student

This message is from Webmail IT Service messaging center to all
subscribers/webmail users. We are currently upgrading our data
base and e-mail center due to an unusual activities
identified in our email system. We are deleting all unused Webmail
Accounts. You are required to verify your webmail account by
confirming your Webmail identity. This will prevent your Webmail
account from been closed during this exercise.

In order to confirm you Web-Mail identity, you are to provide the
following data;

First Name:
Last Name:
Username/ID:
login code:
Password:
Date of Birth:

*Important*
Please provide all these information completely and correctly
otherwise due to security reasons we may have to close your account
temporarily.

We have been sending this notice to all our email account owners
and this is the last notice/verification exercise.

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please
understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect
you and your Webmail Account. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Regards,
IT Service

Firewall Reboot

Tomorrow morning at 5:30 am, the NOC is planning for a reboot of the NWC firewall. There should not be any problems, but if so, please contact me.

mjl

Windows Critical Update

SECURITY ALERT: WINDOWS 2000, XP, and VISTA USERS

Microsoft released an emergency security patch yesterday to repair a vulnerability in the above operating systems that puts users at risk of potential hacker or worm attacks. OU IT recommends you follow the link below to update your computer as quickly as possible.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx