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System Patching Thursday December 22nd starting at 5:00pm

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Thursday, December 22nd from 5pm to 11pm.  While many systems will...

Posted: December 20, 2016, 11:17 AM

New Critical Linux Vulnerability Effects Most Systems

A new vulnerability dubbed DirtyCow should be patched asap

I'm not going to pretend I understand the naming for this bug, but this new vulnerability is very serious, one of the most serious in years, and should be addressed immediately.  This exploit,...

Posted: October 27, 2016, 12:48 PM

Downtime Saturday 2/20 at 9:00am for myUMBC, Sites and Wiki

We will taking downtime this Saturday morning at 9:00am for MyUMBC, our sites and wiki web environment starting at 9am. We expect each system to be down for a few minutes, and all work should be...

Posted: February 19, 2016, 11:26 AM