April 2014 - ISG-news - lists.phys.ethz.ch

[ISG News] Scheduled power outage in HPT on Mon, May 5 - Limited helpdesk
by Christian Herzog 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Scheduled power outage in HPT on Mon, May 5 - Limited helpdesk' On Monday, May 5, there will be a scheduled power outage in the HPT building, between 13:00 and 22:00. This will also affect ISG's offices, but none of the servers. Our services will run as usual, but we'll have to move the helpdesk to a temporary location during the outage. So please be patient when calling and wait for your call to be redirected to our pager or write an email instead. We hope to be back to normal by Tuesday morning. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2014/04/30/scheduled-power-outage-in-hpt-on-m… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Christian Herzog daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] Heartbleed OpenSSL Bug and D-PHYS Services
by Axel Beckert 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Heartbleed OpenSSL Bug and D-PHYS Services' On Monday the public was made aware of a severe bug in OpenSSL, a cryptography library which is used as the core of many cryptographically secured IT services. Since the bug was in the Heartbeat extension it has been named "Heartbleed". This bug allowed attackers to stealthily access parts of the memory used for cryptographic actions, i.e. it may include digital keys in use on servers or passwords transferred over encrypted connections. If you used any password-protected D-PHYS web services or the D-PHYS mail server between 12th of December 2013 (or used the BackupPC web-interface since end of 2012) and Tuesday, the 8th of April 2014, there is a very small chance that your D-PHYS password and possibly other transmitted data may have been leaked to an attacker. We currently have no indication that this has actually happened on our servers. To be safe, you might want to change the password of your D-PHYS account and any other account where the same password is used. See this Heise article for a discussion (in German) about whether you should change your password or not. Services and systems not directly affected by the heartbleed bug are SSH, Mosh, PGP, GPG and NTP. So your SSH and PGP/GPG private keys do not need to be changed unless you used the D-PHYS password as passphrase or they weren't protected by a passphrase at all. SSH host keys should not be affected either. (If you do not know what these terms mean, don't bother: you are very likely not affected anyways.) You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2014/04/11/heartbleed-openssl-bug-and-d-phys-… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Axel Beckert beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] HPT D and E Floor Network Service Interruption on 10th of April 2014
by Thomas Berchtold 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

ISG News has posted a new item, 'HPT D and E Floor Network Service Interruption on 10th of April 2014' The central network group informed us about a planed network interruption between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. on the 10th of April 2014 due to maintenance work. The following rooms are affected by this interruption: HPT D1 - HPT D20 and HPT E1 - HPT E17. Due to this interruption it may not be possible to access the D-PHYS services and internet. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2014/04/07/hpt-d-and-e-floor-network-service-… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Thomas Berchtold thomber(a)phys.ethz.ch

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