------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windows Security Bulletin April 2004 http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1081933379
Last night [1]Microsoft has released the [2]Windows Security Bulletin Summary for April 2004. Be sure to run [3]Windows Update (with Internet Explorer) today on all the Windows Workstations and Servers to install the Security Updates, they are marked as Critical.
References
1. http://www.microsoft.com/ 2. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/winapr04.mspx 3. http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Problems with spam http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1080210856
[1]Spam, also known as [2]UCE or [3]UBE or simply called junkmail, is the most frequently reason why [4]we are contacted during these days. Read on to see why you get so much junkmail and why you get errors for mails you never sent.
References
1. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/spam.html 2. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/U/UCE.html 3. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/U/UBE.html 4. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/contact/
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mailserver improvement http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1080745718
During the last week, we had several times more incoming mails then our [1]mailserver was [2]able to process. Most of them was [3]spam - but the processing of "good" mails was delayed for several hours.
References
1. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/service/email/ 2. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/1080745718/stats.html 3. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1080210856/index_html
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dynamic DNS entries http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1081431601
All computers in networks which get their IP from our [1]DHCP server are now registered automatically in the DNS server. Read our article when you need to find your computer over the internet.
References
1. http://bb.phys.ethz.ch/bb/html/biferten.dhcp.html
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Linux kernel problem http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1082042318
A security problem in the iso9660 filesystem of the [1]Linux [2]Kernel below [3]2.4.26 was discovered. See the [4]advisory from [5]SuSE.
Update: All our managed [6]workstations are now rebooted.
References
1. http://www.linux.ch/ 2. http://www.kernel.org/ 3. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ 4. http://www.suse.de/de/security/2004_09_kernel.html 5. http://www.suse.com/ 6. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/service/workstations/
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Network Interruption http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1082546076
On Wednesday, April 28 the network infrastructure will be reworked by the [1]ID/Kommunikation. Between 7:30pm and 10:30pm in the evening we should expect some losses of network connectivity.
References
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filetype list http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1082113453
Quite often we are asked how to open a specific file received by E-Mail or downloaded from the web. We try now to collect such information in a [1]Readme.
References
1. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/113
------------------------------------------------------------------------ VPN with MacOS X http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1080565047
Using the [1]VPN access of [2]ETHZ is a nice thing to use [3]fileservers or journals from everywhere in the world. It's also needed to use [4]wireless LAN in our campus. But on MacOS X [5]10.3 you will discover some problems.
References
1. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/31 2. http://n.ethz.ch/ 3. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/service/files/ 4. http://www.wireless.ethz.ch/ 5. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1067501462/index_html
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