The move of the data to the new disks on mail will take a little while longer. It should be done by 5:30pm.
Updates at 4:15pm on Wednesday January 28, 2015
January 28, 2015 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, January 28, 2015 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 4:15pm). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.
We were waiting for a critical patch, which was not available for our updating until today, which is why these updates have less notice than usual.
“Transaction complete” subject lines on utoronto.ca phishing emails
January 21, 2015 by
Currently there are many phishing emails which are being sent
to University of Toronto accounts (including departmental
accounts) with the subject line:
Transaction complete
These emails are originating from compromised University of
Toronto accounts (so the messages appear to be more legitimate
than usual phishing attacks) and are arriving from "utoronto.ca"
addresses. The message tries to get users to give up their
username and password.
In our default configuration our spam filter has flagged
every such message sent to our department (they were appearing in
INBOX and SuspectedSpam folders flagged as "SPAM:###", but are
now flagged as "VIRUS DETECTED" and automatically deleted).
Please delete any such messages without opening them.
Server updates on 2015jan14 were successful
January 15, 2015 by
The departmental servers are working fine after the updates.
mail server will be going down today at 4:15pm
January 14, 2015 by
The mail server will be going down this afternoon at 4:15pm along with the other servers to upgrade the disks. It should be up by 5pm.
Updates at 4:15pm on Wednesday January 14, 2015
January 12, 2015 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, January 14, 2015 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 4:15pm). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.
mail server downtime on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 3pm
January 12, 2015 by
On Tuesday, Jan 13 at about 3:00pm the mail server will be brought down to check the disks after a write problem earlier today, and also in preparation for an upgrade in February. The mail server should be back by 4:00pm.
Server updates on 2014dec17 were successful
December 17, 2014 by
The departmental servers are working fine after the updates.
Updates at 4:15pm on Wednesday December 17, 2014
December 11, 2014 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, December 17, 2014 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 4:15pm). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.
Mac OS X 10.10 users and Firefox – Serious Security Issue
December 5, 2014 by
If you are running Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and use Firefox then you should see (about an issue where a change in Apple’s logging may have logged all keystrokes entered into Firefox):
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2014-90/
The main remediation mentioned there is:
This issue does not affect OS X users prior to 10.10. Users on OS X 10.10 should go to their /tmp folder and delete any files with names beginning with “CGLog_” followed by the name of a Mozilla product, such as “CGLog_firefox”.
